"Page Not Working" message

[icghogger]

Forum URL: dieseldetailer.proboards.com

For about 30 days, when I try to open our forum, I get the message "page not working".  I am also seeing extra spaces added between forum topics.  Please review and advise.

Thank you,
Robert Tomb
Spring, TX

[bigballofyarn]

Do you have a picture of what you are seeing or the exact error message? If you see a blank space where I see an ad, it sounds like you are using an ad blocker, which violates the ProBoards ToS. Please make sure to add Proboards to your whitelist.

This is how your forum appears to me.




All images on the homepage are broken though.

[Scott]

icghogger -

As bigballofyarn pointed out, the "blank" spaces are where ads should show. Please disable your ad blocker when using our service, or whitelist our domains. Blocking ads (which pays for your free forum by the way) does violate our terms of service. Thank you for making the change to comply with our policies.

The broken images are hotlinked from a site whose security certificate expired. You should upload images directly to your theme and not link to images that display on another site. This causes a drain on their resources, and is akin to syphoning gas out of your neighbor's car to use in your car.

[icghogger]

Thanks for your assistance. I do not have an adblocker running, but I am using PCMatic for internet security. When I cannot access my forum, I cannot access Proboards support either. I get the same message "page not working" but don't recall the error code. I'm pretty much a neophyte when it comes to solving such issues, so please excuse me if I do not properly state my problem.

[Scott]

icghogger - I would wager a guess that PCmatic is causing the issue; and fyi it does contain an ad-blocker.

You can test this by temporarily disabling it while visiting the forum.

Or here are instructions for disabling their ad-blocker for a specific site. You can try this first and see if it makes a difference: knowledgebase.pcmatic.com/article/35-how-do-i-allow-a-website-through-the-pc-matic-ad-blocker