Two9A

@Two9A@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So I work at DeviantArt, and we actually saw this in real-time. A few years ago, we added external ads all over the place, and had to add a whole framework to detect “ad-unsafe” works that wouldn’t get ads served against them. So we only got ads against a percentage of views, and people were getting pissed at the ads and leaving.

  So we tore the ads back out, traffic’s recovered, and a focus on providing actual tools for artists to make money through the site has meant we’re doing better without ads than we were with ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I come across ASCII art in the comments, it’s a good day. Here’s one from the day job:

  ASCII art of a fist, with the headline “DO NOT ADD TO THIS LIST UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING OR YOU WILL BE PUNCHED.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the universe about to have a little minty b⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a short story (more of a novella) by Stephen Baxter on this exact topic, for what it’s worth. Touching Centauri: e-reading.mobi/…/stephen-baxter-phase-space.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post Office accidentally leaks names of sub-postmasters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was on PM earlier, they were interviewing one of the named postmasters: she only found out about this leak when The Mail called for a quote.

  As she said herself, there’s accident and there’s incompetence; this leans heavily to the latter.