this broke on the latest discourse version udpdate and no longer can show images as a background
Hi all,
Please forgive my ignorance, but I noticed that there are css options to have this component display for either anon, members, or both.
I would like to add a custom group as an option since I plan to use the banner as advertisement space. Paid members will be a part of an “ad-free / non-versatile banner” group, opposed to non-paid (regular), and anon users will be presented the versatile banner.
I assume css additions in the theme component customization area is the correct way to go about this once I create the group, but any guidance is appreciated.
I do not know enough to ask my question better than that.
Thanks
Hmm… if you want to target those groups, then perhaps you should use:
And hide the ads using CSS, if that’s your plan.
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The house ads feature of the discourse advertising plugin allows you to exclude groups from seeing those ads. Maybe you can use that for showing ads instead of hiding the versatile banner based on the users groups.
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Just a heads-up about changes to Ingur access from the UK which is affecting this TC.
I’ve just installed Versatile Banner on a new site, I have it running on other sites but this is the first ‘new install’ for a while, so it’s the first time I’ve seen the unconfigured default view of VB.
The default image background Versatile Banner is a link to Imgur, but unfortunately Imgur content is now completely inaccessible in the UK. I think this may be because of mandatory age-checking legislation that was introduced here, but I’m not sure.
So on first installation the Versatile Banner looks like this in the UK
I can confirm that spoofing my origin using a VPN fixes the image access issue.
It might be worth changing the default image to something GitHub-hosted? Could be in the VB repo? Or otherwise another hosting source which is not blocked in the UK.
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