Sponsored Confusion

[bradfitz]

Bleh. Sorry, everybody...
There's some messed up communication going on internally and to you guys. Ignore lots of this. I'm sorry that I haven't been paying more attention (or really that lots of us haven't been paying more attention). (Un)fortunately, we prefer to hack on the new stuff, and not spend a lot of times with the sales department

Comments

[scsi]

1st! :)

[wtf]

Your mom must be so proud.

[etherlad]

I claim first by proxy, via icon! :D

[matttt]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[contestant]

That's reassuring.

[alessandriana]

Glad to hear it. Thanks.

[decadence1]

Thank you.

[foxfirefey]

and we remember which account levels see ads and which don't.

Except that Basic users DO see ads, and not just on the pages of Plus users. They see the sponsored communities on the front page, even when logged in, last I checked.

[pandatini]

Thank you.

The sponsored communites are advertised right on the fucking hompage. That's not "don't look at them if you don't want" that's "we're shoving them in your fucking face and giving them preferential treatment over user created communities" Fuck that.

I still say HELL NO to this corporate bullshit.

[foxfirefey]

Especially given that back when Plus accounts were introduced, paid users were concerned about having to see ads on the front page before they logged in and could avoid them, and were told that ads would not be on the front page.

[museumfreak]

There's no reason you have to go to the front page to log in, though! You can log in from any page that has either the Horizon site scheme or the navstrip enabled. Therefore, you don't have to look at it when you're logged out.