nikolasco has
alerted us to some developments with the NavStrip.
What that code means:
CProd is coming to the NavStrip! Except only one prod is currently being planned: a reminder about Plus accounts, of course!
The planned CProd will show the text "Get polls for free by switching to Plus", with a "Hide" link beside it
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After all, the reason why so many users hate the navigation bar is because it's annoying. CProds are annoying. So adding CProds to the navigation bar may well push things too far for a good number of people. If you thought the bar acceptable on its own, you may well change your mind once it begins to nag you about things.
Ah well. My communities have it turned off, as does my journal, and I'm happily hiding the bar entirely with your lovely little scripts.
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I think I'm going to back up and delete the two free accounts that I use for personal purposes, as eventually there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to browse around with them without being reminded of Plus accounts at every turn, and it takes too much willpower anymore to not scream, BUT IN THE PAST YEAR I ALREADY GAVE YOU TWO ACCOUNTS WITH EXTRA ICONS, THREE POINT FIVE PAID COMMUNITIES, AND PAID FOR A FRIEND'S ACCOUNT FOR SIX MONTHS, AND I HATE YOUR ADS WITH THE HELLFIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
I guess there's an idea for a GreaseMonkey:
Removal of every single Plus nag that exists on the system, period.
But I would need help in tracking down all of the nags that exist.
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It would be an interesting script, that's for sure. Since you aren't the only person I know who reacts in capslock to the cattle prods. ;-)
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I really ought to just make a big ol' Wiki page on it. And a gazillion other things.
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I didn't know the Plus one was already live. I guess that means that I should just make the guide now instead of tomorrow. And here I was about to go to bed...
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http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/3493139.html
Ad on the homepage. Wasn't there one already? You know better than me about these things.
And for something nicer:
http://code.sixapart.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/htdocs/img/ljtalk_online.gif?rev=2937&root=ljcom&view=markup
http://code.sixapart.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/htdocs/img/ljtalk_call.gif?rev=2937&root=ljcom&view=markup
I do hope they become a bit better/bigger.
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However, from reading the ad things I get the impression that they'll only serve ads for LJ on the homepage? Ie, ads for Sponsored+ accounts or ads for paid accounts or ads for new features.
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It also seems that you'll get one whether your logged in or not.
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In any case, they're replacing that boring place where Frank sits and never moves ("this type belongs on the front page roughly where frank always sat.") or does anything useful like promoting Plus accounts.
But badges don't have an Ad-Map type of "App-Home" or "App-Home-Login", which is what these do. You can kind of see the outline of what the different types do here:
http://code.sixapart.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/cgi-bin/adconfig.pl?rev=2934&root=ljcom&view=markup
Maybe I'm going to post about Frank being replaced by an ad, hahaha.
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