annoying redirect

[/pine]

whenever I visit a page on this site from a browser that is not logged in an annoying (ad nauseam) pop up appears asking if I want to join...

what makes is even more annoying is when the pop up is closed the the #$&*@%^ page redirects to the main page and I lose the page I was trying to read...
The same thing happens if I use a search engine and it directs me to a tractorbynet page...I get the pop up then it redirects and the page with the information I was searching for is redirected to the main page...this is poor design IMO

 

[kennyd]

So why not just log-in?

 

[JohnDeere4300]

whenever I visit a page on this site from a browser that is not logged in an annoying (ad nauseam) pop up appears asking if I want to join...

what makes is even more annoying is when the pop up is closed the the #$&*@%^ page redirects to the main page and I lose the page I was trying to read...
The same thing happens if I use a search engine and it directs me to a tractorbynet page...I get the pop up then it redirects and the page with the information I was searching for is redirected to the main page...this is poor design IMO

To keep from losing your page... Log-in.

 

[/pine]

So why not just log-in?

Because I often use a browser that does not accept cookies (I hate big brother)

more importantly...what about non members that use search engines to look for tractor related questions? Say Google, Bing or Yahoo directs them to a page (on tractorbynet) that has the information they are looking for...BUT this annoying pop up appears and if they close the pop up the page redirects and they have to go back to find what they were searching for...a PITA

 

[Willl]

Because I often use a browser

Firefox ?

If not, why not ?

 

[MossRoad]

Because I often use a browser that does not accept cookies (I hate big brother)

You get what you pay for.

 

[/pine]

Firefox ? If not, why not ?

I use several browsers besides and including firefox...my browsing and second guessing was/is not the point...

You get what you pay for.

I'm a software engineer and a web application developer...I mostly code using php and python as well as a few other scripting languages...I'm also fluent with SQL...I make my living off web sites not that much different than this one...

IMO, annoying non-members by redirecting them away from what brought them here (search results) in the first place is simply not good policy from an owner/developer's perspective...

maybe the owner here is satisfied with the growth rate and membership but most of my peers deem search engines as paramount to their continued success and would not do anything that would steer a user away from what they sought...My only intent of bringing this up was to make something more attractive and redirecting a user away from what they searched for does just the opposite...

obvioulsy if the owner here was not interested in user feedback they would not provide the space to do so...The pop up serves a purpose but what good does redirecting the browser to another page do? IMO the most important objective of any web site is appeasing visitors and providing them with the content they are interested in...taking them away from that content serves no purpose IMO

 

[MossRoad]

I use several browsers besides and including firefox...my browsing and second guessing was/is not the point...



I'm a software engineer and a web application developer...I mostly code using php and python as well as a few other scripting languages...I'm also fluent with SQL...I make my living off web sites not that much different than this one...

IMO, annoying non-members by redirecting them away from what brought them here (search results) in the first place is simply not good policy from an owner/developer's perspective...

maybe the owner here is satisfied with the growth rate and membership but most of my peers deem search engines as paramount to their continued success and would not do anything that would steer a user away from what they sought...My only intent of bringing this up was to make something more attractive and redirecting a user away from what they searched for does just the opposite...

obvioulsy if the owner here was not interested in user feedback they would not provide the space to do so...The pop up serves a purpose but what good does redirecting the browser to another page do? IMO the most important objective of any web site is appeasing visitors and providing them with the content they are interested in...taking them away from that content serves no purpose IMO

So calling out the owner in public, using $%^#!! symbols in your post and calling it a poor design instead of just sending him a private message was just a professional courtesy, right?

 

[/pine]

using $%^#!! symbols in your post and calling it a poor design

you even quoted the post yet you accuse me of two things that I did neither of...I did NOT use any symbols and I did said nothing about a poor design...

according to the forum directive cited directly below the title "feedback" is the following:

Post any comments or questions, or report any problems with the forums here

what's your problem?

 

[rcrcomputing]

You may use the noscript plugin with firefox to disable that popup if you'd like.

 

[/pine]

You may use the noscript plugin with firefox to disable that popup if you'd like.

again...it is not about my browser...it's about directing non members away from what they searched for...

 

[JohnDeere4300]

it's about directing non members away from what they searched for...

That's a reason for the "non-members" to become a member.

 

[Muhammad]

I'll look into this later today... I really can't remember but I don't think it's suppose to redirect you to the main page after closing.

As for the pop-up itself... it is cookie-based and set to display once per 365 days, only to visitors who aren't logged in. If you don't allow cookies, it will display on every page unless you have noscript enabled.

 

[aczlan]

I'll look into this later today... I really can't remember but I don't think it's suppose to redirect you to the main page after closing.

As for the pop-up itself... it is cookie-based and set to display once per 365 days, only to visitors who aren't logged in. If you don't allow cookies, it will display on every page unless you have noscript enabled.

I just got it with Firefox 3.0.13 with no addons on Win 7 build 7100, I came from a google search with the address of kubota BX2660 - Google Search to the address of http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/130054-kubota-bx2660.html. I got a popup and said no to the popup and was redirected to the main page rather than to the thread. This happened at ~6:40PM eastern.

Aaron Z

 

[JB4310]

Hate to drag this up again but I haven't been here in awhile and just noticed it. Glad to see that redirect thing was changed, that was a real PITN and was counter productive to what it was intended to do which was to increase membership I'm sure. We often hear stories from new members that said they lurked around in the background for X period of time before joining, which is probably the case with just about everyone, they want to see what the site is like before they take the time to join.

I have a family of 5 using this same PC and I keep the cookies off whenever possible just to help keep the machine from bogging down with to much temporary files etc. often times I want to come to the site just for a quick browse and don't want to log in. With that redirect it was impossible to do that.

That banner that pops up on every page is annoying but can be dealt with now, not sure how it might affect a newcomer though.

It's to bad this thread had to get a little ugly there, I think it was a legitimate gripe.

JB.