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Kontera Ads Removed

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  1. Sean
    Founding Member

    As of this post, I have removed the Kontera Ads from OD. They will no longer show up on the home page, design pages or in the forum. At this point, we only have Google Adsense running. The money earned to date on Kontera will be used for some sort of contest as I mentioned in a previous post. I will follow up in a couple days on that once I talk with Joe and Christopher again. The site should load a little faster now that it's not trying to load the Kontera code. If you notice any improvement in load times because of this, please comment.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  2. Matt-Kern
    Member

    [yea]
    Posted 2 years ago #
  3. NickyD
    Moderator

    Lightning fast for me tonight.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  4. arwen54
    Member

    beautifully fast, thank you, Sean
    Posted 2 years ago #
  5. greg
    Member

    woot
    Posted 2 years ago #
  6. bakercad
    Moderator

    wow....a lot faster, thank you!
    Posted 2 years ago #
  7. null
    Member

    faster
    Posted 2 years ago #
  8. SeanPollock
    Member

    no long loading times. awesome.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  9. Sean
    Founding Member

    Excellent. Keep the feedback coming and lets see how things run over the weekend.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  10. Matt-Kern
    Member

    Yes, it is amazingly faster.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  11. icyone
    Member

    sweet and speedy...:bigsmile:
    Posted 2 years ago #
  12. Matt
    Member

    I think the servers deserve a nice back massage for all the weight they were pulling with those ads. They made some money though, sweet! I'm excited for the contest, always brings out the nicest designs.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  13. null
    Member

    With the ads gone, why not have a once a year 'donation' day where we all donate something to OD? $5, $10 whatever. Sort of like an appealathon. We could even donate 10% to a charity if a set target is reached?
    Posted 2 years ago #
  14. Urgenus
    Member

    Definitely faster now. From where i sufr anyway (finland)
    Posted 2 years ago #
  15. niemion
    Member

    For me (Phoenix) it's very fast right now. It may be just temporary, but for now it seems very good.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  16. coollew
    Member

    Way faster for me also thanks Sean :bakie:
    Posted 2 years ago #
  17. Matt-Kern
    Member

    Posted By: perthmetrowhy not have a once a year 'donation' day
    Pete, I think thats a great idea.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  18. Gnome
    Moderator

    Awesome!
    Posted 2 years ago #
  19. yugnats
    Member

    good riddance!
    Posted 2 years ago #
  20. greg
    Member

    Posted By: perthmetroWith the ads gone, why not have a once a year 'donation' day where we all donate something to OD? $5, $10 whatever. Sort of like an appealathon. We could even donate 10% to a charity if a set target is reached?
    yes, but what are we donating money for? the hosting is free so there aren't really any expenses. a competition? we haven't had a (successful) competition yet, and i'm presuming there was enough cash from kontera/google ads brought in over the last year to cover at least one contest.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  21. Jeremy
    Member

    truth be told, I forgot we even had them. *pats ABP on the head*. But still, glad to hear they're gone.
    Posted 2 years ago #
  22. Gnome
    Moderator

    I actaully installed ABP on my old machine because the kontera code lagged the whole system. (2x450MHz PIII, 4x256MB SD100 RAM, 2x74GB SCSI HDD, Nvidia GeForce 2 and Creative Sound Blaster.)
    Posted 2 years ago #
  23. Jan
    Member

    Works great! I got rid of Kontera on my site a long time ago too.
    Posted 2 years ago #

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