Blank Spaces in my Recent Article

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   Venkatachari Mposted 7 months ago

   I am horrified to find so many blank spaces amid my recently published article's Text Capsules. What is going on HP?

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      eugbugposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      Do you mean where the ads should be? Ads can take a minute to load so readers probably aren't seeing them.

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         Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

         Ads are there already. But blank spaces are also there, within each capsule though they put ads in it already.

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            eugbugposted 7 months agoin reply to this

            I see some blank lines in text capsules in the last article, but isn't that the normal spacing after a carriage return and new paragraph? Did you not add these lines?
            
            
            

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               Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

               I am not refering to these normal paragraph breaks. I am complaining only about the dark blank spaces other than these normal gaps.

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                  eugbugposted 7 months agoin reply to this

                  Ok, I can't see those. Which article are they on?
                  There are blank white spaces above and below some ads, but that's because the ad container seems to be a fixed size rectangle and if the aspect ratio of an ad is different to that of the container, blank spaces are left. The lack of alignment annoys me more. It seems ads are centre-justified and spread out wider than the paragraph sometimes rather than autosizing.

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      Lady Dazyposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      I noticed this on mine too, I think it is where the ads will go.

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   Genna Eastposted 7 months ago

   I have to agree with you in that I have noticed the same issue with some of my stories, poems, etc., despite the fact that many of these were originally published some time ago.

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      Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      Yes, Genna.

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   Jodahposted 7 months ago

   I read your excellent article, Venkatachari. Yes, unfortunately, it was littered with ads and white spaces as has become the norm with our articles recently.
   
   It is frustrating, but there seems nothing we can do.

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      Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      Thank you, John, for reading my article. I am undergoing some heart fluctuations nowadays. Unable to understand it all. It may be due to my new medicines also. I am monitoring my BP daily. And, am in touch with Copilot with my questions. After 10 days, I may visit my Doctor again with my problems and the doubts.

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   Vlado - Val Karasposted 7 months ago

   HP don't really care about our opinion, to them it's all just about: "Keep writing more, more, and more, so we can advertise more and more, to make money more and more, and pay you less and less". If that were not so, by now, we would have gotten from them some satisfactory and acceptable explanation for making our posts look so crazily disorganized.
   As for me, I stopped wondering, it's what it is, we don't own the site, so we don't decide. Take it or leave it -- period.

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   Venkatachari Mposted 7 months ago

   The one you referred to just in the above clip.
   Okay, I see only four ads in the middle of my article excluding the top one and the side ones. Are you seeing more ads?

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      Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      This reply was intended to be posted in reply to Eugbug, but got misplaced here.

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   eugbugposted 7 months ago

   On desktop, I see seven inline ads, plus the header banner and footer ad and the one in the right sidebar.

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      Venkatachari Mposted 7 months agoin reply to this

      That means that the author will not be viewing all the ads. I see only four inline ads and five blank spaces.

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