Here’s hoping they migrate to wiki.gg as Terraria’s contributors have a while ago.

          • Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net
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            1 year ago

            Unfortunately, for most technology startups there are exactly two ways to pay salaries to the developers: getting investors (which lead to the exact cycle that I explained earlier) or paywalling the site up the wazoo (which leads to the community being necessarily smaller than it could have been otherwise).

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        1 year ago

        If ad companies would be paid according to customer conversion rate instead of how many ads they spam everywhere, it would collapse within a financial quarter.

        Thinking that people support a brand or product that constantly annoys them is next-level stupid, but it’s their main strategy. Google’s conversion rate is less than 4% and instead of realizing that spamming trillions of ads on every site is causing that abysmal rate, they double down and get off to bigger “reach”.

        Also, Google lied to customers of their TrueView ads and just presented people muted autoplay ads instead. Here’s an analysis about that.

        https://adalytics.io/blog/invalid-google-video-partner-trueview-ads

        tl;dr the only one benefitting from ads is Google.