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The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:00:19 GMT

Let's say you're in an emergency and need to get from point A to point B. While trying, you encounter a bunch of tiny obstacles that initially seem manageable but become increasingly annoying as you move forward. Under pressure, these tiny things become a source of frustration.

The humongous Checkmates promotional banners are my equivalent to this example.

They cover half of my browser screen, and every time I change a topic or move from one forum to another, I have to scroll halfway down my screen to keep surfing. I find this super annoying and am surprised nobody has said anything. If someone did, why are they still there? I wouldn't be surprised if most people who come to Checkmates don't participate partly because of that unfriendly layout.

From my personal point of view, I see them as intrusive and careless about me achieving my goals, like collaborating in Checkmates by participating in forums or researching solutions. It feels like Checkpoint is saying: "CheckBlockYou-mates is a marketing tool and YOU are here to LISTEN TO ME."

Please vote and agree with me that these banners need to be moved to the sides or made 20% smaller.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

PhoneBoy — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:38:45 GMT

Appreciate the feedback.
This is something I've been meaning to look into and address.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

the_rock — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:51:32 GMT

I never really noticed lol. Give a good example of something in particular?

Andy

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:17:03 GMT

@the_rock this is invisible for Ninjas 😁 but more mortals like me... here is an example, infamous huge banners, zero taste!

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:23:21 GMT

Yes, this would be nice to address. I am sure your graphic designers can just reduce the height of their new graphics by one-third, and everything will fix itself. However, moving the graphics to the sides would be much better for people who are browsing different forums. Sticking to one topic and reading comments and replies is not a problem, but changing topics is annoying.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:26:07 GMT

I will refer to CheckMates as CheckBlocksYou until I see a change..

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

_Val_ — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:30:34 GMT

Thanks for your feedback. We appreciate your passion and expressiveness.

Before I ask my question, here are some notes for the matter:

1. This banner size is a common practice for similar communities, cybersecurity ones too.

2. We do not sell anything in the community, so I find your message a bit unfair

3. If the banner is annoying, you can just scroll the page.

Now, the question. Oscar, you are a member of this community since 2021. What triggered you now?

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

_Val_ — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:32:02 GMT

@ICSI Now, I am quite curious. Did you get a new PC with a smaller screen? Or just having a bad day?

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

the_rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:37:55 GMT

O that? Honestly, never bothered me lol.

Andy

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

G_W_Albrecht — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:11:08 GMT

No.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

the_rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:29:08 GMT

Have a look at 3 things I attached, screenshots from community pages of 3 other major vendors, PAN, Cisco and Fortinet. Its literally SAME size of the banner. I totally agree with the points @_Val_ has made, they all make sense to me.

Andy

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ccsjnw — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:16:52 GMT

Yes. They are dreadful!
Another vote for making them go away.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

the_rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:21:39 GMT

I vote NO : - )

Does not bother me one bit.

Andy

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

Lesley — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:27:29 GMT

Never noticed it untill now, thanks for that 😁

Same on my Phone. Anyway to big or to small leave it up to the website designers, you could argue it is a different ''taste'' in design.

Extra tip. If you want to search something during a critical outage moment on the community you can also use support.checkpoint.com no banners there. (See screenshot)

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

CaseyB — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:28:32 GMT

I'm more annoyed with the insane amount of whitespace / discussion replies & navigation layouts than the banners.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:52:20 GMT

I am taking the time to make CheckBlocks better, as a Check Point partner I should be focus into bringing more clients answering their questions, when I come here to CheckBlocks, makes my practice harder, instead of practical and easy.

I am uploading here three video screen recordings to make my point acroos.

Screen 1 Resolution 2560 x 1600

(view in My Videos)

Screen 2 Resolution 2560 x 1080

(view in My Videos)

Screen Resolution 3 1920 x 1080

(view in My Videos)

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:18:07 GMT

I feel we can do better.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:20:20 GMT

I am uploading three diferent videos, to get my point across.

No, its not a bad day, is that I am up to my neck of work and I want to be fast and efective, but scrolling over and over it does not feel like helping but stopping me.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:20:51 GMT

replied with videos, thanks for asking.

Re: The humongous Checkmates banners, do you hate them too?

ICSI — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 15:22:21 GMT

I can not live with this any longer LOL - I want to improve my surfing experience in Check Mates. Look at my videos above.