forum display format

[jayj79]

recently I've noticed that in certain forums on VT, the first 3 thread topics will appear, then there will be a gap, followed by the rest of the thread topics.
So far, I've seen it on the women's/girl's forum, off the net, and this one. Out of curiosity, I checked out the men's/boy's forum but it didn't have that gap.

I don't recall this type of gap showing up before, but just in the past week or so.

Does it show up that way for others, too? Or is it just my account settings / web browser / etc.?
(I could grab a screenshot and post it to illustrate what I'm talking about, if needed)

[jayj79]

and now that I've posted about it, that gap no longer seems to appear.
so I have no clue what caused it.

[exit237a]

Oct 26, 2023 13:31:26 GMT -5 jayj79 said:

and now that I've posted about it, that gap no longer seems to appear.
so I have no clue what caused it.

Within the past couple weeks or so there have been embedded rectangular ads squished within the board between posts or threads.  Maybe for you, those ads just didn't show up but the extra spaces remained?  That would be my working theory.  They've persisted for me but maybe it's a question of whether an ad-blocker is enabled.  They haven't been a huge bother so I just ignore them.

[jayj79]

Oct 28, 2023 15:28:18 GMT -5 exit237a said:

Oct 26, 2023 13:31:26 GMT -5 jayj79 said:

and now that I've posted about it, that gap no longer seems to appear.
so I have no clue what caused it.

Within the past couple weeks or so there have been embedded rectangular ads squished within the board between posts or threads.  Maybe for you, those ads just didn't show up but the extra spaces remained?  That would be my working theory.  They've persisted for me but maybe it's a question of whether an ad-blocker is enabled.  They haven't been a huge bother so I just ignore them.

that's probably it. I do have an ad blocker set up, I think, and fairly strict security settings on my browsers as far as 3rd party cookies and whatnot