Did the ads change drastically in quantity today???

[Altair]

Normally when I log on the first screen or 2 has ads that are along the borders all the way down the screen, about an inch and a half of the screen on each side.  They used to go away once I went to new posts or the forums.  Today they are staying, and it's making my screen incredibly cluttered and hard to focus on the posts.  Is this a glitch or supposed to be like this? 

Looks like this:

Like I said, this used to go away and i'd get a regular screen.  Is there no way to get rid of this without being a supporting member? 

[Cynthia Mosher]

This is a site skin ad and is integrated into the site's pages. So it is not something removable for Supporters, though development is scheduled to allow it to be something optionally removable as a benefit for Supporter members.

You will see the skin on the forum index page and on some pages like the Create New Thread page and New Posts pages. You can use the forum preferences in your profile to view the forums at full width. That will stretch the threads pages wide so you don't see the skin ads. 

The only way to not see the skin ads is to draw the window in to narrow the with until the ads do not show. 

[Altair]

Thanks.  I think it was just a glitch yesterday that the skin was on all my mothering screens for the entire day.  Today it's only on a few, like before.  Weird!