The way to prevent the ads is to upgrade to a premium membership at http://www.chess.com/membership.html as premium members do not experience any ads on the site and this will likely give you better loading speed with not having to deal with the rubicon thing.
Site being slow.
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Jul 25, 2008
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Zach:
That is odd - sorry to hear that! Is it always happening? I agree - perhaps trying a silver membership for month might help out? l
Is anyone else having this problem?
Jul 25, 2008
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erik wrote:
Is anyone else having this problem?
I have had game pages reload and nothing loads except the white background. Sometimes it happens with forum threads, too. Unlike the previous poster, for me it won't eventually load. I have to manually reload.
Jul 25, 2008
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I wasn't positive it was an ad issue, but thank you for the confirmation. Not that it matters, but I was slightly wrong about the site; it's actually rubiconproject.com, apparently. I tried going there directly, but either the site's down or my ISP blocks it?
In any case, if I could afford a no-ad membership, I'd do it; this site has been awesome so far, I really enjoy the features.
yes it is rubicon. the sites seems to be entering an infinite loop from time to time, at least that is what my firebug showed.
P.S: The two browser I haven't run into tho this infinite loop with are Chromium(chrome for linux) and internet explorer 7(on my vbox where i have a win xp installed). Yet I find this to be something that needs to be resolved. One thing is to have an add/series of adds and another thing is to have something like this.
Jan 10, 2009
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i'm looking into this more. can you message me more details? i can't duplicate. it would help to have a detailed firebug report or something. maybe it is the rubicon servers in your area...
Works fine for me, using Chrome.
Dynamic ad/code insertion on an ad heavy site is always going cause users problems. There are a number of extensions for FF and custom code for Opera that will strip out those calls - or you can join and there are no ads at all is my understanding. I'm new here and just poking around. Once they finally actually put the new membership system in place I will probably join.
I have one account for forums and one for playing (which I know isn't allowed, but I have my reasons too). For all that they offer, they do a pretty damn good job. There are some technical issues that need not be, but it is a complex site. My biggest plaint is that they don't delete flame or pointlessly provocative threads with a heavy hand. Short term hit, long term benefit IMO.
I keep getting the Internet Explorer message: A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? Yes No.
Has anyone else received this message? If so, how would I go about fixing it?
It's happening to me too
Ah the ads - they seem to hop in and take over my typing keystrokes disappear into the bit bucket. WHo empties the bit buckets around here?
These are coding and DOM or OOP issues. Sooner or later someboby is going say "use Firefox', and while that would be a whole lot better for people than Explorer for numerous reasons, cross-brower compatibility is a reasonable expectation. They may be reaching to do more than they can presently reliably support. The water is too deep.
It's happening to me too. I just thought it was a maintenance problem in this site.
Jan 10, 2009
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Try going to floppymoose.com and installing their CSS file. It is a stylesheet that will change the way most web pages load, in actually ignoring ads altogether. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot. When ads get through it, I use a user-modifiable ad-blocker to plug the gaps. Incidentally, I use Safari on OS X 10.5.6. with GlimmerBlocker installed.
Jan 11, 2009
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one of our ad providers seems to be having problems. i have disabled them entirely now. can you please clear cache and re-login and try again?
i'm working hard to fix this. please let me know! you should not see any more "rubicon" stuff.
feedback?
Still slow and I get this message in IE:
A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script? Yes No.
my firefox 3 and chrome lags a bit too
For the last few days, possibly a week, chess.com has been loading extremely slow for me. The index page loads fine (http://www.chess.com/) but going anywhere else, forums, games, profiles - they all display the background then take almost a full minute to display anything else. I'm using OS X 10.4 with Firefox 3, but the problem occurs in Safari as well. It may possibly be hanging on optimized-by.rubicon.com, as neither browser is able to contact that host. Is anyone else having this problem, or know of a way to prevent chess.com trying to look up rubicon.com?