When I decided to monetise this website – the point I could no longer afford to run it without monetising it – I had no idea how complex it would be. The issue seems to be that the world of advertising on the internet is a highly competitive game with lots of companies all fighting over websites like mine, both in terms of providing the service to put ads on the site, and in terms of the ads themselves. It’s not really an issue I have ever got my head around, and have relied heavily on the company that provides adds to help me with it.
This relationship has generally been ok, but to say it has recently gone through a bit of a rocky patch would be an understatement. All you really need to know is that I haven’t been happy with the service. There have been issue with the site not loading properly, falling over when it does load, and even visitors to the website not seeing images – not ideal for a photography website.
I have today had crisis talks with them. I’m at a breaking point, and have made that very clear. They have promised things are going to change. Soon. So soon in fact, that we should start seeing improvements this next week. Please do feel free to message me if you see improvements, or indeed if you feel like nothing changes.
As you may or may not also know – despite having the website rebuilt once this year – I am also in the process of a complete rebuild. This isn’t just a little bit of a spit and polish this time. For the first time in 10 years I am having a complete ground up rebuild of the website. It is a big and complex job, and frankly is costing me a fortune (I have been selling cameras, my Noritsu Scanner, etc to afford it). I should at this point say, this is not a cry for help. A few people have offered to give me cameras for me to sell to help pay for it – this is wonderful, but on all 3 occasions people have made this offer, I have declined. This is my website, I earn a small amount of my living from it, it’s my problem to fix. That said, you would like to contribute to the site – and remove the adverts/slightly speed up the website for your self – either through content or through subscription in the normal ways, I would, of course, welcome that!
The purpose of this post is simply to reassure some of you that the mess the website is in – slow and too many damned adverts – are problems that I am working on, and that hopefully before the year is out, will be fixed.
Thank you for your continued support!
Hamish
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Paul Quellin on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 13/10/2023
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Jeremy Rata on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Thorsten on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Kevin Finger on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Bob Janes on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Keep up the good work :-)
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Ralph Turner on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Jukka Reimola on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 13/10/2023
First, I would like to thank you for providing this place for us old farts (and some fine younger people) to share, enjoy and comment each others photos and writing. This, I must admit, has been very important for me personally. 35mmc has been a breath of fresh air among all the turmoil going on all around our world nowadays, not to mention in my personal life. If, to say this, feels like an exaggeration... well, that's how I feel.
So, what ever you decide to do with 35mmc, I wish you all the luck and will power & strenght to overcome every obstacle you may face.
BTW, I haven't noticed any problems with the site, since the recent reload.
Chris Rusbridge on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 13/10/2023
Chantel Wakefield on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Gil Aegerter on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Jan Friedrich on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
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Julian Tanase on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 14/10/2023
Apart from a couple of times when images were absent, and the slightly longer time to load a page, I haven't noticed serious issues with your website. That said, internet is what it is, and stuff like this happens.
I know you'll get to the bottom of this, and if help is needed, all you have to do is letting me/us know. For all the effort you put into this, I am certain that many will join hands to help you.
Best of,
JT
Tony Warren on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 15/10/2023
Regards,
Tony.
Aniello on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 15/10/2023
I am not a subscriber nor a contributor and I'm happy with having to endure the pain of advert, but somehow something must have changed as I was starting to feel this to be a cheap website with great content, ruined by too many and poor quality advert.
So hearing you and knowing you're tackling the problem reassures me there's a nice human being behind the site and actually I'm now leaning towards the subscription.
Keep up the good work.
Comment posted: 15/10/2023
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Zheng Li on 35mmc, Adverts, Website Issues, and a Path Forward
Comment posted: 16/10/2023
Thanks for trying to improving the site. We also run some wordpress websites for work, and it can become quite hairy and mysteriously slow once there are lots of content (esp. images). Even a few Ph.D.s later we still cannot make it faster, so you are not alone. ;-)