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Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-14 17:03
Over the summer I'll be working on some changes to improve mabination, it's broken down into several phases and I'm currently on phase 1. Here's what's happening in phase 1:
Rules / ToS redone
The rules/ToS/Privacy policy will be completely redone into a single web page (not a forum thread) that will be linked to at the bottom of every page (where it shows the time) and somewhere visible (not decided where yet) at the top of every page.
Home Page Makeover
The home page at mabination.com will be reorganized and made slightly more useful. I can't do a whole lot with vbulletin's crappy system but it should at least be better than what is there now.
Advertising
The advertising will be redone. The previous change to intergi + jlist isn't working very well, but it's not a complete failure either. I'm checking into the posibility of using google again, but only on areas of the site that don't always cause them to flip their shit. The rest of the site will continue to use a mix of different advertisers.
This is already in progress and pretty much completed, just waiting on results from google.
Assuming things work out with google the list of advertisers will be:
Google
Exoclick
Intergi
J-List
Otherwise it'll be the same thing minus google.
I'll also be discontinuing the sale of the "no ads" upgrade, not many people buy it to begin with since they probably just use adblock anyways. Those who already purchased it aren't affected.
Phase 2
Phase 2 will be some forum organizing/restructuring to be announced at a later date.
Phase 3
Phase 3 will be an update to the CP calculator, but this will only happen if I'm still playing mabi at that time to have enough motivation to do it.
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Arsik wrote on 2014-07-14 17:09
Phase 4: Telling people to start broadening their horizons and checking out other games, and then converting the site into a general gaming community instead of a fansite for a game beyond its prime? ;D
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-14 17:16
Quote from Arsik;1232117:
Phase 4: Telling people to start broadening their horizons and checking out other games, and then converting the site into a general gaming community instead of a fansite for a game beyond its prime? ;D
If that can happen one day it would be nice, but I don't think people would come here for anything other than mabi.
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Yoorah wrote on 2014-07-14 21:02
From what I recall, Google doesn't allow sites to mix ads from different providers. Gotta use Google by itself, or not at all.
The homepage thing is probably a waste of time! Does it actually get much traffic? I always go to /forum directly...
Also, since everyone agrees that vB sux, let's just move to XenForo already. :0 [S]Then we can watch people whine-rage because their pets and other icon-spam is gone.[/S]
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-14 21:13
You can mix google ads with others if you want, although since google pays better it'll only be google + j-list on those pages. J-list technically doesn't count as an ad, more of a referral/affiliate. Get paid for sales only, no cpm/clicks.
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Yai wrote on 2014-07-15 16:20
Hopefully the new ad providers will help you keep this site afloat. I really don't want this site to go under seeing as it is one of the last decent Mabinogi sites out there.
Looking forward to seeing this progress.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-07-15 16:26
Whoa, whoa whoa there Osay. Exoclick?! EXOCLICK!?
Well probably won't be much of an issue unless you browse on mobile, at which point, expect lots of porn advertisements >.>
Anyways, interested to see the outcome of this.
Also wish I wasn't lazy, otherwise I would update my CP calculator but oh well.
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-15 16:43
Quote from Kingofrunes;1232358:
Whoa, whoa whoa there Osay. Exoclick?! EXOCLICK!?
Well probably won't be much of an issue unless you browse on mobile, at which point, expect lots of porn advertisements >.>
Anyways, interested to see the outcome of this.
Also wish I wasn't lazy, otherwise I would update my CP calculator but oh well.
You can choose categories to show so there shouldn't be porn. The worst I seen so far is dating ads. The ecchi-ish ads from jlist are technically worse.
Do let me know though if anyone sees nudity in ads so I can yell at my exoclick rep.
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Kingofrunes wrote on 2014-07-15 16:57
I'd be worried about the dating ads as some of those send to porn sites through various ways. But should only be an issue if people click through on those.
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Ashikoki wrote on 2014-07-15 21:23
I've got a lot of work to do, so I'm going to need lots of coffee.
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Splatulated wrote on 2014-07-15 22:40
Quote from Osayidan;1232119:
If that can happen one day it would be nice, but I don't think people would come here for anything other than mabi.
when Arche Age comes out publicly im sure we would come here for that too
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Aubog007 wrote on 2014-07-16 03:03
It's like southperry where half the people bitch about the game, quarter don't play it anymore, and a quarter actually does play.
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Osayidan wrote on 2014-07-16 22:59
Google's made it pretty clear that they don't give a fuck about websites with user-generated content, which is ironic since their entire business revolves around content others have created. So I'm replacing google with some company called "game advertising online" that approached me about advertising here. Their ads will be pretty relevant considering this is a game forum.
Their ads will be shown as primary, and if no ads are available from them it'll revert to intergi and then finally to exoclick if nothing is available from intergi. Will also be some J-list stuff to fill in the gaps (and give you guys the occasional anime cleavage to look at).
The changes should be completed in the next couple of hours.
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RegisAreus wrote on 2014-07-17 03:30
OMG so do phase 3 xD the cp calculator has helped me so much!
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Compass wrote on 2014-07-20 23:19
So will the color of the no-ads user upgrade be unobtainable and would the current users keep their color?