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It’s basically impossible to use on your phone. The ads, the refreshes that end up in errors. Terrible
It’s so onerous that I rarely even visit anymore. It used to be a nice distraction from the stressors of life. Now it is just adding to my angst toward technology further.
Hey guys, sorry you guys are having trouble. Fwiw, I’m on an old IPhone SE and streaming a live chess game at the same time, and having no issues, so at least for me, there doesn’t seem to be either a server or user side problem. Could you please contact @admin with your ip, hardware, software, and version info, etc… and he can investigate? If the site is slowing down so much for you, of course I don’t mind you guys using an ad blocker, but we’d hope to be able to fix things in our end. For context, ad rates dropped by about 30% between 2022 to 2023, and then another 20% between 2023-2024 for a variety of reasons, across the entire industry (the reason that say, the NYT has a coupon page and straight up ad emails as well) and we had to increase the number of ads just to keep the doors open. We held out as long as possible, but as a small business, it became untenable to run a deficit month after month.