They weren't free so there is cost savings. We just didn't think any ad revenue gained by them was worth hurting the/. user experience. We removed the Jobs section too that DICE had created.
We're not being paid to steer you into paywalls. In fact we have made a concerted effort to stop linking to paywall sites. However, when the news is breaking we'd rather you guys have the news, and update the story as soon as another source is available.
When the news broke it was originally reported by only the WSJ so we wanted to provide the breaking news before waiting for another site to regurgitate the news. Once they did, we updated the story (which was submitted to us by a user and voted up in the firehose).
No evidence that we want to improve the site huh? Well I answered hundreds of questions here on how we can improve Slashdot: https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
In the 3 weeks we have owned the site we have removed the "Jobs" section, discontinued "Videos" (by popular demand), fixed the search bar, have the groundwork laid to roll out https in the next week or two, and are well on our way to supporting Unicode.
Here's an after photo: http://www.thesempost.com/wp-c... (this one shows Google product listings in the right sidebar.) If it doesn't surface a product listing then the right sidebar is blank. The before only had 3 search ads on top, and then more in the sidebar.
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Haha well I guess you could complain about lack of https and unicode support for at least another week or three
They weren't free so there is cost savings. We just didn't think any ad revenue gained by them was worth hurting the /. user experience. We removed the Jobs section too that DICE had created.
We discontinued videos due to popular demand
Thanks. We will only improve it from here
Thanks for the support. I appreciate it
Thanks!
Thanks much
Haha. Yes we'll cut down on that big time
Yes good ideas
Haha no argument there
It would remove the deals. Have to investigate the newsletter more before I had an answer on that
Any subscription service we would provide would have zero ads
Thanks!
You're very welcome.
Thank you my friend
We're not being paid to steer you into paywalls. In fact we have made a concerted effort to stop linking to paywall sites. However, when the news is breaking we'd rather you guys have the news, and update the story as soon as another source is available.
Yes we are looking at reviving the subscription option so that you can do something like this
These were all on the site when we acquired it. We are in the process of cleaning up all requests and scripts like this.
I'd say iOS supporting ad blockers probably contributed to it.
When the news broke it was originally reported by only the WSJ so we wanted to provide the breaking news before waiting for another site to regurgitate the news. Once they did, we updated the story (which was submitted to us by a user and voted up in the firehose).
No evidence that we want to improve the site huh? Well I answered hundreds of questions here on how we can improve Slashdot: https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
In the 3 weeks we have owned the site we have removed the "Jobs" section, discontinued "Videos" (by popular demand), fixed the search bar, have the groundwork laid to roll out https in the next week or two, and are well on our way to supporting Unicode.
You're right on
Yes. A killing of $0 since this was not a paid submission.
Yeah we will make the default open a new tab instead of load in the main one. Until then, I'd just CTRL + click
Thanks for the feedback. Also, maybe it's time to change your signature ;)
Here's an after photo: http://www.thesempost.com/wp-c... (this one shows Google product listings in the right sidebar.) If it doesn't surface a product listing then the right sidebar is blank. The before only had 3 search ads on top, and then more in the sidebar.