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No Ads for Supporters! #4168

Closed lordyavin closed 1 year ago

lordyavin commented 1 year ago

Recently the sidebar "Accommodations Nearby" were introduced and I really don't like to load ads that I don't want to see. The link "Find Accommodation" was totally sufficient and is an opt-in to get ads about accommodations.

In general I always loved it that theCrag had one or two static ad banners/images only. Now these ads are going to annoy me more and more. More bad that those ads potentially decrease the overall website performance and "hide" content of interest (e.g. photos sidebar).

So I propose to totally disable ads for supporters. Optionally provide a setting that supporters can activate the ads.

See the "Pur-Abo" subscription models of known publishers.

Drazhar commented 1 year ago

Hey

First of all I agree that supporters shouldn't suffer ads, because they give money anyway. Also the accommodations on mobile take a lot of screen space and bandwidth 😔

But I also think there shouldn't be any extras for supporters, because then the next step will be premium accounts and maybe even areas which are only visible for premium users. That was the main reason why I left 27crags in the past.

So maybe removing ads for supporters is fine, but it shouldn't be advertised to become a supporter to remove ads. It should be a nice side effect.

These are just my two cents!

Best regards Philip

quaestor commented 1 year ago

Thanks @lordyavin and @Drazhar, I fully support this. It‘s basically an attempt to present ads as a convenience feature, which is however „convenient“ to a miniscule percentage of daily users. As @lordyavin put it: the link „find accomodation“ was totally enough. I share @Drazhar‘s thoughts about the subtle introduction of „premium“ accounts, though, so not promoting the lack of ads for supporters might be an idea.

rouletout commented 1 year ago

From next release on there will be an option for supporters to disable accommodation and / or guidebook ads.

lordyavin commented 1 year ago

I'm kinda excited

lordyavin commented 1 year ago

Works! Thanks

nicHoch commented 10 months ago

with the latest release you can now hide all ads as a supporter.

lordyavin commented 10 months ago

No release promotion for this feature? ;-)