Looks like Fanfiction.net isn't making as much money as they want to.

[tikatu]

When I went on the site today, I noticed that the ads, which I thought I'd banished with their Adblocker yesterday, were back. I activated their Adblocker again, and found out you can no longer get rid of them for three days at a time. Now it's down to just one day.

Do you think this little fact is on the homepage?

Nope. Not there. I think they don'

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[vamp_ress]

Stopping by...

I only visit ff.net with my Adblock Plus on, which works nicely - no ads for me. On the other hand, I think ff.net has become virtually unusable if you don't use some kind of adblocker - the ads are just everywhere, constantly AND they're very intrusive. Sometimes, I really wonder why so many people still post there - it's not like there are no alternatives (I tend to pimp out my personal alternative, http://www.skyehawke.com whenever I can, because I think it's a much nicer place *g*). I guess it's a snake biting its own tail. People post there, because everyone else is posting there and they believe it's a must-be place. If only a handful of people take the choice to go away, nothing will ever break ff.net's rule.

[tikatu]

I just looked at Skyehawke; seems like an interesting archive. Lots of the more recent fandoms there, too. Are readers there good about reviewing?

The ads at ff.net are very intrusive. I just cleaned out my history. When I went to the site and tried to activate the adblocker for the day, a full-page ad popped up... which stopped me until they'd decided I'd seen enough of the ad and let me skip it.

I know that their policy about adblocking came about in response to FanLib, but they're quickly becoming worse than that site ever was.

[vamp_ress]

Well, reviewing could always be better. Generally very good for Harry Potter, less stellar for tiny fandoms because you have less drive-by fandom than on, say, ff.net. One of the main advantages, IMO, is the fact that it is a) fan-run and b) has no restriction on ratings.

If you're running Firefox, try the Adblock Plus plugin. It's really working wonders for me (though, occasionally, it cuts away important links).

[tikatu]

Thanks for the advice on the Adblock Plus. I'll have to add it to my plug-ins.

It's true that reviewing could always be better, no matter what the fandom or archive. Unfortunately, I've found that for the smaller (or older) fandoms, ff.net is probably the place where they'll get a larger audience and more drive-by reviews.

[vamp_ress]

True, I'm afraid. That's probably (at least in part) because for a lot of people it's the first stop when they're looking for a particular fandom. It'd be interesting to see whether this might change once more people use places like Delicious to find fic.