Boarding Area's Fall
Jul 8, 2024 | 2:42 pm
#1306
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 4,059
Anyone else Boarding Area page turning white after scrolling?
Scroll down a little and the entire page goes white. Never had any issues before and it just suddenly started today on FF. Chrome worked fine. FF mobile and desktop both same result.
Jul 9, 2024 | 1:39 am
#1307
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: London
Programs: BA, VS, HH, IHG, MB, MR
Posts: 27,225
I mean, where do you start with BA?
That all Ben's articles appear twice?
That I get a lot of non-English content on the home page?
That the stupid new side scrolling box near the top does your head in?
That all Ben's articles appear twice?
That I get a lot of non-English content on the home page?
That the stupid new side scrolling box near the top does your head in?
Jul 10, 2024 | 9:25 am
#1308
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PARIS, FRANCE!
Posts: 61,970
Jul 10, 2024 | 2:16 pm
#1309
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 52,734
Curious when they will start implementing AI tools to auto generate content. That will give the various ghostwriters a run for their money... Daraius/MMS pioneered the use of templates 12-14 years ago, so generating content in a certain scheme should be possible?
Jul 11, 2024 | 12:48 pm
#1311
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: JAX
Programs: Ex-BA/AA/CP/LY staff, BA Blue, IHG Diamond, Marriott Silver, Chick-fil-A Red
Posts: 3,756
The blankness has been happening in Chrome desktop for me, but not Android Chrome Mobile, nor in Incognito Mode on Chrome desktop…
Jul 13, 2024 | 5:53 am
#1312
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: AUS
Programs: AY+ Platinum, BAC, AA, Hyatt Globalist, Amex Plat
Posts: 7,523
I will say that it seemed (though I'm not positive) to be related to ad blocking. I found that in both Chrome and FF, if I turned off ABP and Ghostery the sites seemed to work fwiw.
Regards
Jan 23, 2025 | 3:54 pm
#1313
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: PHX, ICN
Programs: OZ Diamond, Marriott Gold, Hilton Gold
Posts: 571
"Sky Skylar is a fictional travel blogger created by BoardingArea as the first experimental content creator for frequent flyers. Inspired by Max Headroom, a journalist himself, Skys blogging is influenced by the millions of frequent flyer miles he did not fly but absorbed in reading all the blog posts that have ever been written about travel. Skys origin is rooted in a near-future dominated by AI and the concept of mixed and augmented reality travel. Skys name was inspired by the Sky King character in an old western TV series, a comically ironic name for a fictional travel blogger who has never flown but knows and understands everything about travel."
So a new, cool idea inspired by 40 and 70 year-old references.
I'd call it the Poochie of writing, but that's a 30 year old reference.The writing is as you'd expect, which is unoriginal, uninformative, and essentially like taking a press release and publishing it straight to the web. It's probably just good enough to draw non-reader casuals to the site, but offers nothing to any FT reader, or really any BA reader for that matter. Comment are moderated, so no pushback is allowed.
Oh, and the thumbnails are also AI-generated for the total package.
Jan 27, 2025 | 4:50 am
#1314
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PARIS, FRANCE!
Posts: 61,970
Congratulations! It has begun with "Sky Skylar", BA's hilariously boring and blah AI faux travel writer. I hate to give it any publicity, but the tragicomically bad "bio" for an, ahem, person that by definition doesn't exist tells you all you need to know and avoid. To wit:
"Sky Skylar is a fictional travel blogger created by BoardingArea as the first experimental content creator for frequent flyers. Inspired by Max Headroom, a journalist himself, Skys blogging is influenced by the millions of frequent flyer miles he did not fly but absorbed in reading all the blog posts that have ever been written about travel. Skys origin is rooted in a near-future dominated by AI and the concept of mixed and augmented reality travel. Skys name was inspired by the Sky King character in an old western TV series, a comically ironic name for a fictional travel blogger who has never flown but knows and understands everything about travel."
So a new, cool idea inspired by 40 and 70 year-old references. I'd call it the Poochie of writing, but that's a 30 year old reference.
The writing is as you'd expect, which is unoriginal, uninformative, and essentially like taking a press release and publishing it straight to the web. It's probably just good enough to draw non-reader casuals to the site, but offers nothing to any FT reader, or really any BA reader for that matter. Comment are moderated, so no pushback is allowed.
Oh, and the thumbnails are also AI-generated for the total package.
"Sky Skylar is a fictional travel blogger created by BoardingArea as the first experimental content creator for frequent flyers. Inspired by Max Headroom, a journalist himself, Skys blogging is influenced by the millions of frequent flyer miles he did not fly but absorbed in reading all the blog posts that have ever been written about travel. Skys origin is rooted in a near-future dominated by AI and the concept of mixed and augmented reality travel. Skys name was inspired by the Sky King character in an old western TV series, a comically ironic name for a fictional travel blogger who has never flown but knows and understands everything about travel."
So a new, cool idea inspired by 40 and 70 year-old references.
I'd call it the Poochie of writing, but that's a 30 year old reference.The writing is as you'd expect, which is unoriginal, uninformative, and essentially like taking a press release and publishing it straight to the web. It's probably just good enough to draw non-reader casuals to the site, but offers nothing to any FT reader, or really any BA reader for that matter. Comment are moderated, so no pushback is allowed.
Oh, and the thumbnails are also AI-generated for the total package.
Jan 27, 2025 | 6:18 am
#1315
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 52,734
This article is so hillarious, it has to be satire?
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
Jan 27, 2025 | 8:54 am
#1316
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: DL PM; Hilton Dia; Marriott Titanium/LT Gold
Posts: 8,515
This article is so hillarious, it has to be satire?
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
But remember, according to Randy "The blogs you will find on BoardingArea are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cats meow you get the idea"
Jan 27, 2025 | 9:40 am
#1317
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: SGF
Programs: AS, AA, UA, AGR S+, Choice Platinum
Posts: 23,319
This article is so hillarious, it has to be satire?
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
But the images are gold.
It started to go off the rails for me at Cabin Experience. Then apparently Norse Premium (Norese Premiw?) has you seated alternately in a stave church or in the massage parlour of a luxury cruiseliner with candles and fire pits...
Jan 28, 2025 | 5:14 am
#1318
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PARIS, FRANCE!
Posts: 61,970
This article is so hillarious, it has to be satire?
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
https://boardingarea.com/norse-atlan...lantic-travel/
Any article that starts with 'In the X world of X' is 100% guaranteed untrained AI generated.
But those ridiculous photos are just...*chefs kiss*
Jan 28, 2025 | 5:58 am
#1319
Moderator: Lufthansa Miles & More, India based airlines, India, External Miles & Points Resources
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: MUC
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 52,734
Jan 28, 2025 | 6:56 am
#1320
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: May 1998
Location: Digital Nomad Wandering the Earth - Currently in PARIS, FRANCE!
Posts: 61,970
The Qsuite article is also pure satire: https://boardingarea.com/qatar-airwa...-in-the-skies/
Imagine the physical configuration of the outside of an aircraft with windows on two perpendicular sides of the plane....
