Weather Underground -- welcomes reports; fixes: Fast.

Post #326,297 by Ashton 5/16/10 12:10:32 AM Reply	Weather Underground -- welcomes reports; fixes: Fast. Safari reported a lethally-slow script running. I killed script. (I keep this open on main window, generally.) Sent in report. Immediate ack w/thanks, "we'll look into it". Task #. Tried site an hour or so later (my local weather monitor station) -- fixed. Today, note from WG reporting the fix. Short, sweet, fixed. Yes, I know it's supposed to work that way, but ...
Post #326,301 by Another Scott 5/16/10 9:19:30 AM Reply	They seem to be a great outfit.I'm happy to send them $10/yr
Post #326,630 by Ashton 5/21/10 1:06:05 AM Reply	Would that more put $ where mouth be; apropos I need to remind self that there are Other matters worth funding, besides Cats. (Still, KISS says: when in doubt -- kitties win whatever $$ is up for grabs..) I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers! -- via RC
Post #327,337 by Ashton 6/3/10 11:31:01 PM Reply	Conclusion (Despite earlier efforts noted above ... this was 'fixed' for a time, then recurred. I sent a final note that it had also spread to other sub-sites of theirs.. Got this today: "Hello, Thank you for the note. The ad campaign responsible for this issue has been suspended." Now if more sites actually bounced the offenders..
Post #327,339 by static 6/3/10 11:44:47 PM Reply	It's tough to investigate ads that misbehave. For many many sites, ad-space is sold through several layers before actual content appears. Idiocy takes a while to track down and larger vendors and networks take to binning whole (sub)networks which is incredibly bad for business. I imagine the more savvy ones might be putting SLAs into their contracts requiring time to investigate before such action is done. Unfortunately, there are always ad-makers who don't care and will continue to release badly behaved code. Wade. Q:Is it proper to eat cheeseburgers with your fingers? A:No, the fingers should be eaten separately.
Post #327,340 by drook 6/3/10 11:55:06 PM Reply	That's not the (entire) problem The problem is most of the ads are loaded dynamically from third-party servers. It doesn't even have to be a bad ad, just wonkiness on the server that's (supposed to be) serving it. I had an ad for a while that held up the page load for >20 seconds -- which might as well be forever in web-surfing years -- because their DB was saturated. No, the browser shouldn't have hung because of that, but it did. And if something is bad with the ad, they can pull it before you're able to investigate. -- Drew
Post #327,343 by malraux 6/4/10 12:11:02 AM Reply	Re: Weather Underground -- welcomes reports; fixes: Fast. It was started at my alma mater: http://en.wikipedia....eather_service%29 Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

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