Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

  • Replies 538
  • Views 47.8k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • Longhornlove
    Longhornlove

    Context means everything, I guess that doesn't matter when there is a narrative that needs to be pushed.

  • The Earl of Texas
    The Earl of Texas

    Limiting what is now the best source of info about football/recruiting on a football/recruiting board bc you vote differently than someone else is definitely not an improvement.

  • The Earl of Texas
    The Earl of Texas

    If you are comparing Elon Musk to Nazi Germany, you have a lot of reading to do about Nazi Germany. The politicians you worship make slip ups all the time and go much further than that like flyin

Posted Images

  • Author

Pop up ads? There are no pop ups. There are ads in cloak room if you are not treefiddy now. I announced that over a year and a half ago and just never got to it. 

There are also ads for any new members (which you are not) so if you are seeing ads other than cloak room let me know and I'll fix.

The ads in CR on Android/Firefox Mobile are pretty annoying. Keep popping up in the middle of the page and repop as you scroll which moves everything around and shifts text.

Maybe I'll quit freeloading..

Edited by BillyBadAss

.. I say pop up, they are not a separate dialog, but act like popups in they they load delayed and get in the way as you try to scroll/read.

Never saw any until yesterday. Seems pretty trashy. Like it’s a porn site or something. 

1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Never saw any until yesterday. Seems pretty trashy. Like it’s a porn site or something. 

Pony up the dough and join the big boys.

5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Pony up the dough and join the big boys.

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

  • Author
6 hours ago, BillyBadAss said:

.. I say pop up, they are not a separate dialog, but act like popups in they they load delayed and get in the way as you try to scroll/read.

Ah the intext ads that repeat. I'll get those to only load once. 

6 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Never saw any until yesterday. Seems pretty trashy. Like it’s a porn site or something. 

It's CR only. 

5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

It's almost like this is a sports site and there may be a thread where I talked about ads being shown in CR to discourage so much traffic there or actually have people pony up to pay so they don't see them. 

5 hours ago, Underdog said:

Glad I'm not the only one getting the pop ups in CR. 

Everyone except treefiddy sees ads in CR. 

Everyone who is in the new members group (lurkers who don't contribute content) see an ad lite experience. 

Everyone else who is a full member does not see any ads except cloak room.

If you are not signed in you see ads. 

You also get access to the discord, you get unlimited rep, you get unlimited photo storage, and you get the treefiddy badge for signing up. I'm open to other things you would like for your money, because content especially football content will always be free here except for those who only consume. 

  • Author
5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

What am I paying for? I figure I’ve already gotten all the useful tips on chili and BBQ that are to be had around here. I learned what pozole is and got a good recipe for green chile stew. And that was back on shaggy. No ads.

Would I be paying for insightful commentary on the sport of football? I don’t think so. Insults because of who I am and where I’m from? I already get that for free.

Aggressive ads in the Cloak Room are just saying you should take all political talk to DT.

live only ever joined two porn sites in my life, didn’t have to pay, and when I did, those ads went away. (Because I know you want to know, one was PlanetSuzy. I don’t remember what the other one was.)

You also get unlimited time to edit or delete your own posts with subscription. 

Again open to more things, and ads are only for Cloak Room because this isn't a fucking politics site. Expect those ads to be less random in the coming weeks they will become political ads paid for by campaigns. 

27 minutes ago, immamac said:

What device/browser are you on? 

I got one of those as well, on an android phone using Chrome. 

I'm gonna end up getting treefiddy, considering how much I use this site, but you should embrace how good of a sub the politics forum is. It's low hanging fruit for the face painters, but there's lots of good information. 

  • Author
Just now, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I got one of those as well, on an android phone using Chrome. 

I'm gonna end up getting treefiddy, considering how much I use this site, but you should embrace how good of a sub the politics forum is. It's low hanging fruit for the face painters, but there's lots of good information. 

I am very well aware of how much traffic that sub forum gets. Which is why I'm monetizing it. I left over 100k on the table this election cycle from not running ads in there for non paying folks. 

In the true off-season it's ~60% of the boards traffic.

I'm open to changing the experience to be less intrusive, but ads are staying for non-paying members in cloak room. I don't run cookie based ads they are all direct buy campaigns, which is already a pretty big deal from a privacy of information perspective.

Believe I am tree fiddy and just started receiving "scroll-through?" Ads in CR.

I wish you would try to keep pinned topics to a minimum. There’s 4 right now but was up to 6 yesterday . Takes up a whole screen in fluid mode. 

1 hour ago, immamac said:

You also get unlimited time to edit or delete your own posts with subscription. 

And the tote bag.  Don’t forget the tote bag.

  • Author
1 hour ago, Nolacycling said:

Believe I am tree fiddy and just started receiving "scroll-through?" Ads in CR.

Seems you upgraded to quad at some point and kept paying 3.50 through paypal and it left you in limbo. Fixed let's see if it works next month if not I'll send you a DM and we will figure it out! 

Not sure if this goes here or in the borked thread, but I've been having a lot of issues with reddit links and Chrome lately. Most won't play in the thread they're posted on (not really a new problem), so I open them in a new tab. Before, that would always work. But over the last week or so the videos won't even play once opened in a new Reddit tab. They will play if I copy the link into a Firefox tab. Here's an example of a link (I added a space after www. so it doesn't embed again. Could some of the stuff added into the link by Surly (i.e., the red text) be causing the issue? 

https://www. reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mbwznc/giving_mcnuggets_to_a_hungry_stray_dog/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=comments&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=872aa18065bb4963964806324885a0be&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=mbwznc 

 It's also caching something. Even if I past the actual source url -- https://www. reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/mbwznc/giving_mcnuggets_to_a_hungry_stray_dog/ -- into a new Chrome window, it still won't play. Pasting this one into an incognito window works through

 

 

On 3/20/2021 at 5:10 PM, TonyTexas said:

I wish you would try to keep pinned topics to a minimum.

Under appreciated sentiment right here.  The fewer pinned topics the better. 

Today is the first time I’ve encountered ads since signing up to pay into the site. Is this the new policy?

On 3/20/2021 at 5:11 PM, Upgrayedd said:

And the tote bag.  Don’t forget the tote bag.

Tote bags avatar. Check. 

  • Author
8 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Today is the first time I’ve encountered ads since signing up to pay into the site. Is this the new policy?

I don't see any subscriptions or donations from your account at all. I see a lot of attempted sign ups, but no actual payments processed through paypal or stripe with your email.

You are a Full Member, you only see ads in the CR. If you are treefiddy you don't see ads at all. If you think that there is an error on the payment processing on my side feel free to send me a DM with a screenshot of your transactions and I'll see what we can do to fix it.

On 3/20/2021 at 3:37 PM, immamac said:

You also get unlimited time to edit or delete your own posts with subscription. 

Again open to more things, and ads are only for Cloak Room because this isn't a fucking politics site. Expect those ads to be less random in the coming weeks they will become political ads paid for by campaigns. 

If I pay can you put ads in DT?

I like the Tapatalk function where we can hide the pinned topics when entering a section. Is it possible to do this for the online browser version?

  • 2 weeks later...

How about the search function? It's an abortion. Search one word and the chronological order is not even in order.

27e44f87a9834df2695707c25f99293f.jpg

The ads with sound on Tapatalk are getting very intrusive, at this point. If it's on Tapatalk's side, I'm done with them. If not, just a heads up that every thread I've clicked on in Tapa has had an ad with sound, sometimes just sound that I can't find and turn off.

Can we delete “Editor’s Corner” on the $9.95 section? On mobile you have to scroll beyond an 18 month old thread on hiring Deadspin reporters before you get to the actual new recruiting posts. 

  • Author
6 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

Can we delete “Editor’s Corner” on the $9.95 section? On mobile you have to scroll beyond an 18 month old thread on hiring Deadspin reporters before you get to the actual new recruiting posts. 

I'm not sure I follow how are you navigating the forum? 

11 minutes ago, immamac said:

I'm not sure I follow how are you navigating the forum? 


clicking on the forum link from the top. Compare landing page between 995 and basketball:

 

 

5BB79944-2F62-4557-A523-69D355F26C8E.jpeg

FD467A92-B150-46D5-A701-B043E94C7C3E.jpeg

Is there an option to turn on, or a mod available perhaps, that saves your follow preferences so you can one-click?

Seems like a trivial option to be able to set the pref once in personal settings, and be good. Like if you don't want email digests or whatever. Seems easier than having to change it every time?

18 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Something that has bothered me lately is the board names at the bottom banner not matching the top.

Example:

 

image.thumb.png.140cd277cd3cfb78dade4d21494f43b2.png

image.thumb.png.9b7075c74a59ff1377472ec18aa9ff7f.png

 

I'm guessing it's being done for SEO purposes. Just a guess though.

I keep getting redirected to this in the CR every time I open a thread.

20210426_134238.jpg

Am I the only one who just realized that IPIHB is a hidden link in the ... between F&T and Daily Texan? I only browse Surly from the website when I'm at the office, so never cared that it wasn't there, but just clicked on it accidentally and there it was.

On 4/26/2021 at 4:44 PM, HoustonHorn said:

Am I the only one who just realized that IPIHB is a hidden link in the ... between F&T and Daily Texan? 

Yes. 

I have nothing to do with tapatalk except installing the plugin. That's on their end. 
Okay, thanks. I'm going to have to uninstall Tapa for good. Now several ads run at the same time and sometimes audio from an ad that's not even in the feed runs.

They completely butchered what used to be an amazing app.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.