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Are those annoying pop-in ads in lucky13's blog a part of wordpress?

What ads?! I don't see ads. The only "ads" I see are little banners I placed for vim, firefox, gimp, and open office.

It's important to differentiate between wordpress software and wordpress.com, which is a free and commercial host site. The software doesn't require placement of ads but allows for that through whatever the host server allows and user wants. The use of a host site like wordpress.com can place ads. John could install wordpress and continue to place google syndication ads like there are across the site or do whatever he wants.

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Also, wordpress is really heavy, like Wikipedia...

And guess what software John is already using for the wiki... Yep, Mediawiki. The same stuff wikipedia uses. Look at the bottom of the wiki and see.

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They sometimes have a double underlining on a random word, or accidentally hovering mouse over one of the pics brings one up. And they won't go away! No close buttons either. Even though I have to admit only half of those image pop-ins is ads, they are still annoying and block the text.

edit: and yet the DSL wiki is not as heavy as wikipedia.org. It can be customized to be lighter. But I'm not too sure about wordpress; actually I've heard nothing about it..
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hovering mouse over one of the pics brings one up. And they won't go away! No close buttons either.

Scrolling down closes them. Moving away from them closes them. That's the way wordpress.com sets up the wordpress.org software. That's something each site/host configures, not necessarily how the software works all the time. We use wordpress at work for both Inter- and intranet and that's not an issue because we don't have to generate google syndication revenue, etc. That, though, is something DSL does and is going to do anyway -- throughout the site (including on the forums), and on any blog software John decides to use.
One issue with the blog was it was not great for posting code.  This is the main reason I didn't blog there.  Neither is the wiki.

Some blogs appear to be good at this however.
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Scrolling down closes them. Moving away from them closes them.

Nope, not for me. They usually stay all the time I'm on the page, sometimes only minutes.
No matter how many pages I scroll away.

Buggy software that -.-
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