No, not at all!

That add popping up on the screen makes it really hard to type a reply as well because it flashes on and off each time you touch the screen.

Can it just be removed?

Which ad? I removed the graphical ad from the bottom. Note that this issue only seems to happen on iPad. I don't have one to test with so we'll need to fix this via trial and error. Thanks for your patience.
Are you logged into the forum? There are less ads when you are logged in.

Yeah it was the graphical add from the bottom of the screen that was causing the issue and I tried both being logged in and logged out and it made no difference.

Now that you have removed the add from the bottom of the screen the forum is working perfectly again on my iPad.

Thanks for your help.

Ok cool. Btw ads are what pays for the hosting and software license for this forum.

Yes but all the other adds have never caused an issue with using the forum, but as soon as that particular add was added to the bottom of the page it made the forum almost unusable on an iPad. Also when your using an iPad you already have a smaller screen to to view the forum then when you add a banner style add to the bottom of the screen you really notice the loss of screen available to view the forum.