On 19 Dec 2008, at 12:56, Andy Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 16:18, Andrew Sayers
> <andrew-20081218_at_pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>> Andy Levy wrote:
>>>> When you disable Adblock, the TortoiseSVN download page includes an
>>>> advert at the top with a large orange lozenge marked "click
>>>> here". A
>>>> user instructed to go to the download page will click on that
>>>> lozenge no
>>>> matter what they're told to do, then wonder why TortoiseSVN isn't
>>>> installing. This is especially true for users with a small screen,
>>>> where the lozenge is the only obvious thing on the page.
>>>
>>> The ad page is purely a Sourceforge thing and cannot be controlled
>>> by
>>> the TSVN folks. It's the price one pays for hosting with
>>> Soruceforge.
>>>
>>
>> By "download page", I'm referring to http://tortoisesvn.net/
>> downloads,
>> which is copyright of the TSVN team. It hadn't occurred to me that
>> there'd be an SF downloads page, which I agree wouldn't be a TSVN
>> issue.
>
> Those ads are still managed externally. I'm sure there there's some
> settings that Google Ads allows one to change, but I'm sure someone
> will find a way to object to pretty much anything that appears in that
> space.
But the ad is very poorly positioned (or well positioned if you are
the advertiser). When I went to the page to download TortoiseSVN the
advert was a big button with a label saying "Click to Download" (it's
not at the moment). Naturally I pressed that button expecting my
download to start and got taken to an advertiser's web site instead.
Whether the page is hosted by SourceForge or not, it is still a part
of TortoiseSVN's web site so the TortoiseSVN project bears ultimate
responsibility for what is a pretty poor piece of web design.
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