Sad that its wasnt more successful. Glad you tested anyways 👍

I know you guys need to make money. But please, don't let Google and the sort track us down even on on Hive. The absence of add with trackers is one of the main reasons I came here and I stayed. I hope you can find better ways to generate revenues...

to be honest they didn't bother me because it was not aggressive. one thing that was irritating was the one that always moving my page :D

I think that this test was useful to see certain parameters that can be improved and how we can attract other people's attention through other strategies. While it is not a resounding "never" to ADS, neither is it to give up what we want, and thus to achieve stability, growth and well-being for all ☺️ We continue working 👍

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We need better content recommendation algorithms.

Once it's done, we can revisit old blogs and generate traffic instead of current content graveyard.

When we r not generating views on old content, google might not be ranking us thinking hive.blog or peakd.com is a website where people spam and then the content is thrown in a graveyard like most social media where posts r hard to rank on search engines.

Hive should try to be wordpress and not Facebook.

With ads, the experience is never good and thanks for removing this. Great work 

It's not a surprise at all, considering the target audience as you mentioned :) 

Perhaps there could be community based adds for better targeting, but yet again, most of the users/readers would be from all over the globe, and likely from low ad revenue countries.

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Right decision. I don't think HIVE should focus on ads at all until the daily active user base is far larger.

Any ecosystem that can sustain itself without ads is a place I'd like to spend my money.

I think ads can put some people off and many will block them anyway. Maybe if/when Hive is much bigger then it could be more viable. Have to avoid annoying users though.

Although I definitely get it that you try to implement ads as they generate money, I am glad you dismissed them (for now). It made it less attractive and kind of annoying.

Great that you tested it out though!

The fact you tested it is a success. Hive dapps need to be doing things like this.