# Message board software problem or thinks I'm using a mobile version?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621
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**Created:** [September 6, 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621 "2017-09-06T09:09:15Z")
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### Author:  [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/1 "2017-09-06T09:09:15Z")
Is this a problem with the message board new software or there is way to remove box that is taking up the space?
How do I remove this?
[ ](https://image.ibb.co/gRRKrv/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_5_09_58_AM.png)
What is this Go box, up box and menu box thing floating over the text? How do I remove it?
[ ](https://image.ibb.co/gRRKrv/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_5_09_58_AM.png)
Or it seems the new software things I’m using a mobile version than desktop version. And box is appearing over the text where you cannot read the text under it.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/2 "2017-09-06T09:15:51Z")
It’s a change they rolled out overnight. They’re discussing the changes in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=835541](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=835541)
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### Author:  [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/3 "2017-09-06T09:43:28Z")
It just that Go box, up box and menu box thing floating over the text when I reading the threads here.
Making it very hard to read the text under the Go box, up box and menu box
[https://image.ibb.co/m4FR4F/Screen\_shot\_2017\_09\_06\_at\_5\_52\_36\_AM.png](https://image.ibb.co/m4FR4F/Screen_shot_2017_09_06_at_5_52_36_AM.png)
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### Author:  [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/4 "2017-09-06T09:49:59Z")
Yeah, when I attempt to use the advanced search, only the left half of the page is viewable/accessible. The rest is chopped off. I’m on an iPad mini, safari, if that helps.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/5 "2017-09-06T15:52:43Z")
OK. So since this thread pointed out something that had vaguely irritated me, I clicked uBlock Origin, entered the Element picker, and put the cursor over the Arrow
It came up with, on a mini-screen:
||[i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p559/scrolltotop/arrow79.png](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p559/scrolltotop/arrow79.png)
So, on impulse I clicked ‘Create’ below that screen and the little thing vanished. I’m not sure how it worked, and I suspect I may have to either use NoScript or manually block that png image if it comes back, but for now it has gone on all pages.
[The Element Picker is on the top row of uBlock, 2nd one on, and looks like a glass dropper used to feed baby orphans.]
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### Author:  [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/6 "2017-09-06T15:58:01Z")
> [@Evan\_Drake](#):
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> OK. So since this thread pointed out something that had vaguely irritated me, I clicked uBlock Origin, entered the Element picker, and put the cursor over the Arrow
>
> It came up with, on a mini-screen:
>
> ||[i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p559/scrolltotop/arrow79.png](http://i1155.photobucket.com/albums/p559/scrolltotop/arrow79.png)
> So, on impulse I clicked ‘Create’ below that screen and the little thing vanished. I’m not sure how it worked, and I suspect I may have to either use NoScript or manually block that png image if it comes back, but for now it has gone on all pages.
>
> [The Element Picker is on the top row of uBlock, 2nd one on, and looks like a glass dropper used to feed baby orphans.]
Excellent! Thanks.
ETA: It came back. Grr!
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/7 "2017-09-06T16:06:28Z")
> [@Kron](#):
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> Excellent! Thanks.
>
> ETA: It came back. Grr!
The element you actually want to block is called ##topcontrol or something like that.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/8 "2017-09-06T16:11:26Z")
You do have to reload the page. However it hasn’t come back for me.
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### Author:  [@Debillw3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debillw3)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-software-problem-or-thinks-im-using-a-mobile-version/795621/9 "2017-09-06T17:19:20Z")
Some blockers only block for the page you’re on; others block the recurring elements on every page they appear.
If it comes back when you navigate to another page, try another blocker.
(That’s one of the reasons I dropped ABP.)