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Hot Take Why does Sherdog do everything possible to run off users?

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I might be done using this site, as much as I love conversing with all of you. The annoying "R U A HOOMAN?!?!" interruptions, and now these CONSTANT new mobile popup ads!?!? Who in their right mind would visit this site and decide to sign up and deal with these things, when much simpler alternatives are available? Just in principle, I feel like whoever the management/owners of this site are, simply do not care about the users and growing Sherdog in any meaningful way, despite MMA's growing popularity/fanbase.


And I know this is not the correct forum, eat my butt
 
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I might be done using this site, as much as I love conversing with all of you. The annoying "R U A HOOMAN?!?!" interruptions, and now these CONSTANT new popup ads!?!? Who in their right mind would visit this site and decide to sign up and deal with these things, when much simpler alternatives are available? Just in principle, I feel like whoever the management of this site is, simply do not care about the users and growing the site in any meaningful way, despite MMA's growing popularity/fanbase.


And I know this is not the correct forum, eat my butt
How can you not be using uBlock Origin - boomer I guess?

Not only does it stop all ads and pop-ups on websites, but it massively reduces the chance of getting viruses as a result
 
How can you not be using uBlock Origin - boomer I guess?

Not only does it stop all ads and pop-ups on websites, but it massively reduces the chance of getting viruses as a result

Of course I am using adblock on desktop.... but on mobile I do not want to use a special browser just to post on a karate forum

EDIT: Also adblock does nothing to alleviate the human checks dingus
 
I thought this was just Australia

So weird first in over 20 years, inability to access the forum 1/2 the time because of weird 2fa and google ads now occupying the bottom right hand corner of the screen with chrome is making this thing a mission to use

I ain't rage quitting just yet
 
Of course I am using adblock on desktop.... but on mobile I do not want to use a special browser just to post on a karate forum

EDIT: Also adblock does nothing to alleviate the human checks dingus
I use the uBlock Origin ad block on Firefox and it gets rid of everything, as well as auto checking and skipping through the "are you human" bullshit.

But I agree, they ran off a lot of people with the 2FA stuff, and it seems like the constant glitches and other crap are making others leave, too.
 
I thought this was just Australia

So weird first in over 20 years, inability to access the forum 1/2 the time because of weird 2fa and google ads now occupying the bottom right hand corner of the screen with chrome is making this thing a mission to use

I ain't rage quitting just yet
You can get rid of the 2FA thing, and just try the uBlock Origin ad block, it seems to get rid of everything else.
 
what i dont get is how the 2fa just happened. anyone with a brain would have known that this was going to be a terrible idea from the get go. i know the mods do it for free, but how did no one seemingly speak up? what is there to lose? you can't mod over dwindling traffic, for free. reversing it, was just the icing on the cake.

can't be any money made off of this, have no idea what the end goal was. this has just got to be some glorified honey pot now.

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It's free, it's fun, it's the best of its kind, everyone on here is passionate about the same thing...I can easily tolerate its imperfections. It's been real slow loading lately, but so effing what. I can wait.

I love it here too, but on principle I can't (or don't want to, at least) keep using a site that the owners of keep making worse and worse without care for the community
 
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