Out of curiosity I clicked on the link to view the ads: https://dba.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2436
The first thing I noticed was they all looked squished. I confirmed in my browser that they are being limited to 220px wide.
Out of curiosity I clicked on the link to view the ads: https://dba.meta.stackexchange.com/ads/display/2436
The first thing I noticed was they all looked squished. I confirmed in my browser that they are being limited to 220px wide.
You're entirely correct; an oversight. Fixed next deploy, thanks.
For more details check out the related post on Meta.
The gist is that the code is shared between the demo area and the sidebar. As such they were unable to update the size of one without affecting the other. It was the lesser of two evils to leave the ads in the demo area squished.