If you’re an NBC user, occasionally ROBLOX will show takeover ads on the Home page. Yes these can be avoided by purchasing BC, but that’s not an excuse for ROBLOX’s interface to be broken by ads.
#The Problem:
I’m on a 1080p screen, but despite that, my sidebar is collapsed by default because it doesn’t have enough room on the page:
That’s absurd – I shouldn’t have my sidebar collapsed on a 1080p screen, ads or no ads. This is the kind of stuff that makes people turn on AdBlock.
#The Solution:
Cut back on the size sponsors have for takeover ads. Remove a small amount of 75px from each side. This is what the page looks like with that change:
As you can see, there’s plenty of room for the sidebar as there should be on a 1080p monitor, and the takeover ad still has plenty of room. In fact, you can barely tell the difference between the two because the parts clipped off of the ad are so insignificant.
Edit: The screenshot is < 1920px wide because of the scrollbar and I have my taskbar docked to the side, but the issue persists even with my taskbar docked to the bottom of the screen, giving my browser the full width of the screen.
Wow, the site looks so different in the first image. I have AdBlock on www.roblox.com because I was sick of all the poorly made user-ads and inappropriate off-site ads which were appearing.
I can fix the alignment with a userscript, but I’ll see the initial layout flicker before the userscript corrects alignment. When I saw this small of space for the home page I knew ROBLOX had added worse takeover ads.
