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Fix the broken full-screen aspect ratio
Full-screen is messed up if you're using a monitor with a 16x10 resolution. Please fix this. I love looking at your photos, but can't do it when the full-screen aspect ration is so corrupted. Come on... this really shouldn't be a difficult thing to figure out.
5th rankedThanks for the feedback. Can you let us know more about what you mean by full screen? Are you referring to the entire website when your browser is in full screen? Or some other experience within our site? Thanks.
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You have a comment troll named "The Car Expert". Please manage the comments sections.
You have a troll in your comments by the name of "The Car Expert". He has been infecting the comment community on a daily basis. Your comment section isn't a democracy... you own it. Please be responsible for the people who want to participate without being exposed to trolls.
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Ignore Commenter
Please allow for the people to actively ignore other members. For the love of god... please. If I have to see another childishly bold comment from The Car Expert (sic), I'm going to lose it.
1st rankedGood morning. Wanted to let you know that we are working with our partner to add a “mute” or “hide” commenter feature. We don’t have a timeline defined for this yet but will keep you updated.
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Back Button
You should have some way to get back to the main page without using the back button in a web browser. Currently when you do so it takes you back to the top of the main page as opposed to the page on which you clicked on an article.
5th rankedThanks for the example. There is an old but still valid web development tenet that says “don’t break the back button”. We try to stick to best practices like this when we can in an effort to provide consistency across browsers. For a while, browser vendors were handling back button clicks differently. However, they’ve come back to a more common way in recent years. If you scroll down our home page or another page that lists our posts and then click the browser back button in Chrome, Firefox or Safari, you will go back to the same place you were (for the most part). This may not be the case when large ads are running at the top of the screen. We’ll continue to investigate different scenarios and possible solutions. We really appreciate your feedback.
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Load articles first then advertising
I love this site, the articles and write ups. What I don't like is how long it takes for some articles to appear. I have to wait for ads to load or a ******* video I could care less about. At that point I just leave. Please load the Autoblog content first then the paid advertising.
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Images in photo gallery looks messed up when viewing in Fullscreen mode
When viewing photos of cars in "Fullscreen" mode on monitors that's not the standard 16x9, the images of the cars become stretched to the wrong aspect ratio which makes the cars look terrible and as a result this feature is unusable. This problem plagues all browsers.
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How do I report an inappropriate commenter?
Please remove commenter Jones.Hamilton for harassing commenters.
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Eautoclassic Traders are actively advertising cars on this and many other car sites and are a fraudulent company. They take payments from pe
Eautoclassic Traders are actively advertising cars on this and many other car sites and are a fraudulent company. They take payments from people and then refuse to deliver the vehicle or refund the money that was paid. They ripped me off for $2500 this February and will do the same to others if we don't collectively stop them. Please inform anyone in the car sales business that you can and put them on a blacklist if you can. This warning is going out to over 80 online car companies this week in an effort to educate the public. These are…
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Block sites that are illegally content-scraping your articles
Work to block websites such as newsitn.com that are actively content-scraping your articles for illegal commercial gain. For instance:
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/13/ford-f-150-pickups-transmission-recall/
http://newsitn.com/itv/ford-recalls-1-48-million-2011-2013-f-150-pickups-for-transmission-flaw/
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Gallery does resize properly in iOS
Images in the gallery are distorted and the aspect ratio incorrect on all iOS devices. Super buggy and unusable.
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Gallery does resize properly in iOS
Images in the gallery are distorted and the aspect ratio incorrect on all iOS devices. Super buggy and unusable.
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Question
why does the red star not appear with my comments? Just wondering.
1st rankedStars are earned based how often you comment, upvotes, etc. You may just need to keep interacting with our commenting system for a bit longer.
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Stop intrusive malware and redirect ads!
Looks like you have at least one rogue ad that is auto redirecting mobile visitors to a malware site. I tested it and it showed up repeatedly on this page: https://www.autoblog.com/2018/11/30/gm-ceo-mary-barra-washington-lawmakers/
5th rankedThanks for the feedback. We are looking into it. Can you tell us which ad placement you were looking at? For example, was it at the very top, or the square on the right of the page. Or perhaps one of the suggested articles near the bottom?
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I've tried 3 browsers on pc and android each. Ilog in but it still says sign up to post. What's up?
I've tried 3 browsers on pc and android each. I log in but it still says sign up to post. What's up?
5th rankedThanks for the feedback. We’ve tried to replicate this issue but haven’t been able to. We’ll continue to investigate and let you know if we find a solution.
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The autoscrolling main stories need a pause button.
The main stores autoscroll so fast, and have no pause button, I feel like I am wrestling with the scroll arrows just to try and ready the one line headline in time before it disappears. This actually causes me stress every time I visit the site and therefore makes for an unpleasant experience. I visit no other website that has a fast, autoscrolling lead story slideshow like that. Please provide a pause button, or stop it from autoscrolling.
5th rankedThanks for your feedback. We’ll discuss internally and see if we can accomodate.
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jaznari auto repair has been permanently closed as of 8/31/2018
please remove from listing as it is no longer in business
5th rankedThank you for your feedback. We’ll investigate and remove from our directory.
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Safari not always loading site
On iOS using Safari, I’m finding that when I am connected to wifi, autoblog isn’t always loading. It tries for a few seconds and then gives up saying it can’t be loaded. If I disconnect from wifi, then it will load over LTE without issue. I have tried it in several places (home, work, friend’s house, etc) and just upgraded to a new iPhone and still have the same issue. It isn’t every time, but probably 40-50% of the time. Over LTE I haven’t experienced this issue.
5th rankedThanks for your feedback. We’ll try to replicate your issue.
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Get rid of giant black bar on ipad
The top half of the screen on my iPad is a black bar. Your website is very difficult to use.
5th rankedThanks for the feedback. Would you be able to send a screen shot of what you are seeing?
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