THE ADS.

HONEST.+-

What ads

Sofii

@Gifted u don't have adds???? bless your soul ️

HONEST.+-

@Sofii Ads Are Fr On Here??? April Fools Is Over Guys

ladiesman217

sites always been laggy but ads def make it worse

VGMoose

Sorry, still evaluating how well these perform, if they're worth keeping, whether to tweak or not, etc.

But please feel free to join @Hide-BDNS-Ads ! I won't feel less supported. Also, if anyone does want to directly support me, I have a Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/vgmoose

Ideally either through ads or some other monetization strategy we can find a way to get support for BDNS long term. I don't think whether an individual user turns on adblock or not should make a big difference in that calculation. The forum has a lot of signed-out traffic as well, from external visitors landing here from Google, for instance.

Biblecampvictim

How much do u make on the ads 🤨

ilovecats2018

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VGMoose

The question should be how much do I spend to run the forum and DNS! I'd like to get to a point where it brings in more than it costs to run. As right now, I'm spending out of pocket, similarly to how the Homebrew Appstore CDN runs. The @Hide-BDNS-Ads should be enough to handle annoying ad complaints though, while their performance is evaluated.

At some point in the future I can write more specifics about the cash flow for transparency, but we're not there yet. (In other words, "how much do I make from ads?" -> well $0, since there hasn't even been a payout cycle yet). But it'd be nice if the infrastructure here were self-sustaining in the long term.

mazernade

my ad blocker will never get me. heh

BritishUnity

@VGMoose i don't care about the ads that much but I get like 7 back to back opening the site and it did make it lag more I love the idea though

Yanderemenhera

@BritishUnity i only turned mine off bc of them popping up and crouding up my screen and the lag too ofc, if the ads were less invasive i'd leave them on

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I use Brave on my device to block the ads (please don’t ban me)