Why is there ads, even when Im subscribed to the site?

I reported this to the dev's earlier todya.  Covered! Thanks for confirming it wasnt just me though.

That happened to me once and I couldn't even log on.What it was ..I had my time and date wrong,so check that.

The problem seems to have gone away.....

The problem seems to have gone away.....

Problems have a habit of doing that....

....which is a good thing...

Yeah...I'm seeing ads as well now....wasn't before though.

I would love to help everyone out with this, but I'm afraid that we need to know exactly where you're seeing ads first...

A screenshot would probably be the best way to show us where the ads are popping up.

The ad I was seeing was right above the first "News" entry. Its not there now though...seems sporadic.

Yes, the ads are sporatic. All over the place.
Even those tacky "section icons", on the right, will show up after awhile. Even though I hide them.
Wish they were set, when I log in, to keep my setting after I hide them. That would be nice.

Okay, guess where the add is.

'mess' tidied up....Admin.

I have 2 screenshots. One of them is from this very thread. I am a paid subscriber and I have seen these all over the place as well.

Admin please delete reply # 10. I plain and simple cannot get the insert link feature to work. And now that clwoods has posted I cannot fix that mess up there either.

Sorry BigDog.

Ya thanks, wasn't your fault clwoods. All I remember is I inserted my link, did a quick edit, pressed submit and when I looked up I said oh no. Might need to delete my email id and start with new one. What a pain that would be. I sure hope not.

Mess removed...

Must be working on the site.

Ads keep appearing and disappearing.
Big orange button that asks to create a user page, below the user name, keeps appearing.
Front page news appears and then disappears.

Also noticed section pages show 12 items now instead of 16. (I) liked 16. Sad.....

Thanks Jafo you're great.  

Im a subscriber too.. and the problem is back in the same spot... Additionally I got the prompt to create my own personal site this morning. I already have one... lol. I couldnt even access most of my personal site because I kept getting "Bad Request" errors.

Yup....ads come and go.

Yup....ads come and go.

Is there any timeframe to when this gets fixed?

Yes, this issue is still a problem.
Adds, adds and more adds.......
Logged-in, not logged-in.......

Happened to me, briefly, as well ...around 2 days ago. Seemed to happen after I edited a thread I had a typo or two in.

I hit "save changes" and the [google] ads appeared. I was still logged in.

Don't know if this info is relevant or not though...

When reporting issues (of any kind) please remember to include the url of the page that you are experiencing these issues on (because index.html is much different than index.aspx, for example) and what browser you were using.

I know we've been suggesting this a lot lately, and please understand that it's definately not a cop-out or a cookie cutter response, but if you're experiencing these issues, please give this a shot: open up your cookies location. CLOSE your browser. Delete the wincustomize and stardock cookies. Start your browser. You should not be logged in at this point. Go to www.wincustomize.com/index.aspx << notice the index.aspx. Log in. Make sure you're on index.aspx again. See if you have ads (1). Then visit index.html. See if you have ads (2). Please reference the two different pages by the (#) if you're replying to this [my] reply

WindowsXP, EI7

Did exactly what you suggested.
Even typed the link in manually.

1.)index.aspx, logged-in, adds = yes.

2.)index.html, logged-in, adds = yes.

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If I use my short cut, which is the exact same link, I come up with this link in the address bar.
https://www.wincustomize.com/index.aspx?c=1

Has a (?c=1) at the end. Only happens (sometimes) when I use the short cut, in IE7.
Don't know if it means anything.

Z71's problem is the exact problem I was having at the old site. I was getting the ?c=1 at the end of the url string. Manually changing the 1 to a 0 would allow me to be kind of 'half' logged in.

I could read all the posts in a thread, and even type something in the response field. If I tried to post my reply though, the site would throw up the old "you need to be logged in to reply" error.

The problem was intermittent, and often went away of it's own accord. I also found that when I actually did manage to 'fully' log in ...if I visited any other of the Stardock sites using the same tab I was on at the time, if I then hit the "back" button I would be logged out [either half or fully] with that dreaded c=1 at the end of the url string.

It was happening with both FireFox [latest ver.] and I.E.7.

Since migrating to the new WinCustomize, I've not had the problem again.

Andrew_ even took a quick look at the time, but each time I wanted something to go wrong [for his debugging purposes] ...typically, it just wouldn't happen.

sneaky l'il BUGgers..