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    Here's my full disclosure of what I know.

    The problem first noted by Awerby is driven by advertising space that is now allocated in the first and last posts displayed on every page of 3dprintboard content. This became apparent in studying the page source for what we see as users. Once that was determined, I realized that small click-bait type ads do sometimes appear as insertions in those first and last posts, at least viewed on my Android phone with Chrome as the browser.

    Fine. Some form of revenue has to pay the bills. I think we can all understand that. But here's what I think is the *real* rub. Somewhere in the management flow of 3DR Holdings LLC through the site admins, 3dprintboard seems to be losing it's ability to provide viable content to its users. Here we have legitimate, 2-year and 3-year users indicating that 3dprintboard has become useless to them for viewing core content, and we know it is because space allocated to advertising leaves no room for the core content on some devices. In what realm does this make sense?

    The problem with the first and last entries on a page is aggravated by browser space lost to the right sidebar, which seems to be taking up more and more width over time. The right sidebar is what contains categories such as sponsor ads, hot topics, links back to 3dprint, etc.

    Until the allocation to advertising gets resized or removed from the first/last page entries, until the option to disable to right sidebar gets removed, or until this post gets purged from the system, users struggling with the loss of content in first and last posts on their devices can disable the right sidebar column through clicking the small arrow brackets at the top of the sidebar. Unfortunately, the brackets may be partially hidden from view due to the current uppermost sponsor ad being a bit oversized, but you can still click on the arrow brackets if you know they are there.

    Last edited by printbus; 01-03-2017 at 09:05 AM.

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