The Energon Pub

News Credits: 2 · Thu Apr 03, 2025 6:09 pm

Any one else finding the new pop up ads at the bottom of every page getting annoying?

Sure it’s Ryan’s website and can do whatever he wants to generate income but it’s just super annoying especially with how many page refresh you do when deploying your bots.

Also day 157 of still no armour

Rant over

News Credits: 3 · Thu Apr 03, 2025 7:58 pm

I noticed them popping up the other day, they're pretty cool

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News Credits: 226 · Fri Apr 04, 2025 5:01 pm

AdBlock Plus & Firefox are your friends.

News Credits: 3647 · Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:25 am

DISCHARGE wrote:I noticed them popping up the other day, they're pretty cool

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Google’s “Auto Ads” feature can sometimes be more aggressive than intended and may display different ad placements for each user. Part of the challenge is that Seibertron.com is currently built on an older website structure, which I’m in the process of modernizing. I’m hopeful that once the updated layout is in place, the Auto Ads will be better optimized and less intrusive. Ad revenue has declined significantly over the years, so I’m actively experimenting with different configurations to find what works best. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this transition.

News Credits: 3 · Thu Apr 10, 2025 1:46 pm

Seibertron wrote:
DISCHARGE wrote:I noticed them popping up the other day, they're pretty cool

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Google’s “Auto Ads” feature can sometimes be more aggressive than intended and may display different ad placements for each user. Part of the challenge is that Seibertron.com is currently built on an older website structure, which I’m in the process of modernizing. I’m hopeful that once the updated layout is in place, the Auto Ads will be better optimized and less intrusive. Ad revenue has declined significantly over the years, so I’m actively experimenting with different configurations to find what works best. I appreciate your patience and understanding during this transition.

I'm not really concerned, I did get a new one I've never seen before though:

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I assume there has been work done behind the scene as I've noticed several hiccups advancing through the site resulting in kremzeek popping up or pages being temporarily unavailable

Also would be cool if we could access all the altmodes and the armor
I still love the HMW, thanks

Fri Apr 11, 2025 7:04 pm

and there goes the team view and high scores pages too

News Credits: 3 · Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:44 pm

sprockitz wrote:and there goes the team view and high scores pages too

High score page works for me, the team view is hilarious as it shows the team only .. I can't describe it.
My hope is there is some work being done to fix some of the other problems that has quirked the team page.

Sat Apr 12, 2025 5:51 pm

There are now 25,000 names in high score list. Beginning is sorta right but now out of date as those scores arent updated

Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:15 pm

Individual character pages have rankings messed up too since it uses your current score but is comparing to outdated scores for others so won’t see any change in rankings anymore.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:56 pm

I see what your saying. The issues are related

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News Credits: 34 · Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:27 pm

Oh crap, that's not (just) an error, it's spitting out a whole unparsed chunk of PHP with a bunch of sensitive information. :shock:

@DISCHARGE - can you remove that screenshot please, it's not something Ryan would want out there I'm sure.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Apr 12, 2025 9:47 pm

I've removed it.
I thought he might like to see the errors I'm coming across so he could patch them. Or something. I'm not a computer dude.

News Credits: 34 · Sun Apr 13, 2025 2:54 am

Thanks and no worries, you didn't do anything wrong. I just recognised it as stuff the site absolutely shouldn't have been leaking via error messages etc and figured best not to have a permanent record up.

TBH I'm getting a bit worried by some of the changes we're seeing, and by the way they show that development is being done directly on the live site or at minimum being pushed out without testing.