Regarding the brief (but breath-freshening) issue of log-in screens --
Some of you may remember that we had to move the databases to another machine last year when the server kept crashing. The problem turned out to be bad RAM, which is why we're down to 2 from 4. Anyway, when we moved them back over, I forgot to get one of them. "Mint" is a simple data/traffic tracking package we use to know which areas of the sites are being used, which are not, etc. Anyway, realizing that was still on the other machine, we moved it over here today, and with it came an .htaccess file that shouldn't have. When that did, every time a page tried to send a quick note to Mint, it popped up the login. Mint is a BP-specific package, not related to ads in any way.
And no, we're not testing or considering pop-ups. There will probably be some changes to the ads we're running at some point -- in as much as they'll probably be plugging in Google AdSense for unsold inventory, but that's a step in a less-invasive direction, not more.
Some of you may remember that we had to move the databases to another machine last year when the server kept crashing. The problem turned out to be bad RAM, which is why we're down to 2 from 4. Anyway, when we moved them back over, I forgot to get one of them. "Mint" is a simple data/traffic tracking package we use to know which areas of the sites are being used, which are not, etc. Anyway, realizing that was still on the other machine, we moved it over here today, and with it came an .htaccess file that shouldn't have. When that did, every time a page tried to send a quick note to Mint, it popped up the login. Mint is a BP-specific package, not related to ads in any way.
And no, we're not testing or considering pop-ups. There will probably be some changes to the ads we're running at some point -- in as much as they'll probably be plugging in Google AdSense for unsold inventory, but that's a step in a less-invasive direction, not more.