Several months ago a change was made in the layout of the splash page that comes up when you click on a story headline above the list of threads here at remotecentral.

It used to be that a splash page came up, always with an ad. Cool. You have to make money. I see the ad, whether I click on it or not, so something gets through to me. A skip link allowed us to click on through. IIRC, that link was at the top right of the page.

The change was to place the skip link below the visible part of the image, so I have to scroll down to go past that page. It might be that this doesn't require scrolling on all computers, but it does on mine.*

And, yup, the added motions of scrolling down, just to see an article that I'm sort of interested in, usually is enough to discourage me from bothering. So, less and less, I click on article titles.

Move the link back up and I'll visit more often.

*Sometimes when I skip down on the scroll bar, a few lines are skipped and I have to scroll back up a little to see them, so this might be my laptop's fault.