FEEDBACK REQUEST: Possible Site Upgrade Coming
So a company has approached me about a partnership which would be rather beneficial to everyone. In short, they would take over the technical side of the site, including redesigning things (both on desktop AND mobile) to make it far more user friendly and optimized. In short, as anyone who has been around me for any length of time can tell, I am in no way a tech guy and have no idea what I’m doing in that area. Having someone else handle that for me would be REALLY helpful and in theory would free up some time, allowing me to do more reviewing instead of dealing with everything else.
One important thing: I would maintain 100% control of the site and in no way, shape or form be told what I can and can’t do. Barring a major change in my life, I can’t picture ever selling the place or letting someone else have any say in how I review things around here. This would ONLY be for the tech side/advertisements.
The partnership would also help me out financially, though it would include some more ads on the site. I will have final say on the amount of ads and, assuming I agree to all of this, I won’t let it get out of hand as I can’t stand that myself and wouldn’t want to be here. Odds are we would be seeing some ads every X number of paragraphs of a review and a video that pops up in the corner (and can be closed) or something similar. The place absolutely will not be crawling with ads and if it becomes too much, I’ll pull some of them off, for everyone’s sake.
I’m not sure on if I’ll do this and I’d like to hear from you all. At the end of the day, if this place doesn’t work for you, there is no point in it being around and I want you to be happy with it. This is something that would make the place look/function far better and would help me be able to do more stuff. If that is ok with you all, I’m leaning towards going through with it, but I am absolutely willing to listen to reasons why I shouldn’t.
Let me know what you think and thank you as always.
KB
Hey KB, late feedback but I hope you do what works well for you. Ads shouldn’t be of any problem unless they take over more than half the page while scrolling mainly on mobiles and as per the details you have mentioned this looks like a good deal so you should go for it IMO.
This site has been a constant source of reviews for more than 10 years for me so am happy to see you get this well-deserved opportunity.
As long as you keep the awesome print-friendly option, it’s all good.
The only thing that matters is the money that goes into your wallet. And if this new deal will deal with the tech stuff I’d say it’s a win-win.
You need to do what you need to do. Video ads are fine (as long as the sound doesn’t auto-play, as that’d be annoying).
But most importantly, if you do the deal and it turns out that it isn’t working out, can you end it and go back?
I can end it, yes, though there would be a period of X time after I say I’m out and it ending.
Whatever works best for you man! I’ll still be here. If there’s one thing I would comment on though, lately there been some pretty sexually graphic ads on here for games; it be nice to see those go.
Oh my I hadn’t seen those. That would lean towards the change then as I would never want those on here.