It turned out that Google were running and experiment but it's ended now.
They bury a little toggle on/off permissions option deep down inside their web advertising site you don't even notice it.
I've switched it off now !

Sorry we had an error with an update we rolled out this morning. It should be fixed for everyone now.

Our web developer has investigated the situation. He thinks the problem was caused by a change with the Tapatalk plugin. We have no control over that so he's tweaked our code to see if that solves the problem. It did for him so it's now over to you helpful forum users to report back and let us know ...

The emoji selection is limited to what the phpBB forum software provides.
It may well be possible to edit the selection so I'll go find a man who can look into that.

Our tech guy can't reproduce this problem but he thinks it's not a Google Ad problem. It looks like the delay is due to some non-forum emojis being used. They are not part of the standard smilies collection. The forum is therefore searching for them externally and so the page load is delayed and, in...

Our Dev team will be investigating asap.

Problem fixed.
Everything should be back to normal now.

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