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Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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Track the impacts on https://www.spaceweather.com/

Holy cow that's an insane website design. So, where exactly do I see the tracking? Is it below the grift of a 3D printed moon? Is it near the ads for casinos. Or maybe the mood rings? This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.

I love the design! It has heart.

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy cow that's an insane website design. So, where exactly do I see the tracking? Is it below the grift of a 3D printed moon? Is it near the ads for casinos. Or maybe the mood rings? This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.

Woah, they must be doing something weird to get past ad blockers. This is an outrageous monstrosity of a website

They're not using an automated ad service of any kind they have manually put these ads in the source code of their web page. We all see the same ads.

I prefer it, these ads mean something to the people that run the site, they put some effort into putting them there and presumably purchasing the products benefits the organisation in some way.

They also have a no AI disclaimer at the top.

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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post #6
post #3

Track the impacts on https://www.spaceweather.com/

Holy cow that's an insane website design. So, where exactly do I see the tracking? Is it below the grift of a 3D printed moon? Is it near the ads for casinos. Or maybe the mood rings? This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.

Looks good to me even on Netscape 4.7.

https://www.w6rz.net/netscape.png

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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post #6
post #3

Track the impacts on https://www.spaceweather.com/

Holy cow that's an insane website design. So, where exactly do I see the tracking? Is it below the grift of a 3D printed moon? Is it near the ads for casinos. Or maybe the mood rings? This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.

Insane? It's pretty typical for an early 2000s era site.

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Woah, they must be doing something weird to get past ad blockers. This is an outrageous monstrosity of a website

They're not using an automated ad service of any kind they have manually put these ads in the source code of their web page. We all see the same ads. I prefer it, these ads mean something to the people that run the site, they put some effort into putting them there and presumably purchasing the products benefits the organisation in some way. They also have a no AI disclaimer at the top.

> these ads mean something to the people that run the site

I wouldn't go that far. They mean something as in somebody was willing to spend money, so this is what they get in return. Just look at the randomness of the types of ads. I doubt there was any "qualifying" of the ads other than did the check clear.

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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post #13
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holy cow that's an insane website design. So, where exactly do I see the tracking? Is it below the grift of a 3D printed moon? Is it near the ads for casinos. Or maybe the mood rings? This isn't a bitch about ads. It's I honestly cannot easily find the actual information the site is supposedly hosting.

Looks good to me even on Netscape 4.7. https://www.w6rz.net/netscape.png

Best viewed at 640x480. That way, there's no extra space to place those ads

Re: Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

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Prediction: Absolutely nothing significant will happen here.

Nothing ever happens

That's a good world model until it's not. There was an HN article on this some months ago, I can't remember what keywords the title used to find it again though
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