Well, if they bring it up elsewhere, someone do us a favor and ping this thread, for those of us who might miss an explanation.
(Hoping for an update isn’t a “We deserve to be told everything” stance, it’s rather “If you let us in on the conversation, we’re more likely to work with you” stance.)
I wasn’t ready for uMatrix. It just broke too much stuff I depend on and I had to remove it.
I’ll stick with Pi-Hole/uBlock/Ghostery/Privacy Badger/HTTPS Everywhere for now.
Be prepared to pay $0.05 to read it.
I’d not noticed it, sorry.
That said, it is always the case that I curiously resemble whichever random obscure celebrity you want to have sex with. That’s how 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖌𝖑𝖆𝖒𝖔𝖚𝖗 works.
LOL - one does not mention the glamour in polite circles.
On a more serious note - you guys could easily open a dialogue on monetization of the the BB sites. Not many media groups ever bother to ask readers what are acceptable ways of paying the bills. Some sites like Slate seem to do ok with premium content services - probably a drop in the bucket but could cover some expenses.
As always - you should know people appreciate what you do in keeping BB going - we just don’t say it enough. I’ve been coming here since 2006.
That seems like it would be awkward at parties… 
I’m not sure about asking us what is “acceptable” per se - I don’t want to come off as being entitled since I don’t necessarily help pay enough of the bills around here with my clicks on affiliate links. I hope they do some sound surveys and check metrics and such, but not necessarily by asking in the forum as we are a subset who may not be representative. I also wish they would at least explain what’s going on as it seems unnecessarily mysterious.
I realize that engagement can be be a burden, but BB has, for the past and present, decided that engagement with their audience is something they want, and pay extra for staff and infrastructure to have in the form of his forum. The transparency in moderation thread seems to be working well. So I’d think transparency about monitization could work well to. And I think it would be interesting, engaging material.
Whether it is possible survive on the web financially without being evil is kind of a key theme covered by BB over the years, so I’d think BB’s insights into this would make for good editorial content.
@orenwolf @frauenfelder
I get the site is the editors and authors to do with as they wish.
And that they need to be self supporting.
This decision, seemingly temporary (thank goodness!), has eroded some of my enthusiasm and trust for the site.
I have been reading the blog for many years. I am willing to send some of my money the blog’s way, particularly if it feels like I will be able to keep reading for many more years. Patreon works for me, but even it doesn’t work for the blog there has to be a mutually agreeable option.
While the style of Boing Boing is seems to be one of less engagement with the commenters, such engagement or a blog post explaining/addressing might help.
It is not so much that I am disappointed. Just the schadenfreude that accompanies the feeling of disengaging from something I once had very positive feeling about.
Picturing @beschizza as Idris Elba right now.
Picturing Idris Elba as a ginger right now… 
All these tears are a little weird tbh. I turned ads on on the BB site for the first time about 3 months ago. Literally the only site I allow it to happen. So far as I can tell, the sky has not fallen in. There are plenty of bad actors with bad policy and bad intentions that will never convince me to turn the ads off. BB didn’t even need to ask - I realised I should and I did. It’s not that hard, it’s not that bad.
Grow up. Seriously. Grow the fuck up. We live in a burning world with a small group of arseholes running the joint here in Australia, the US, GB, China, Russia and Davos etc. For the love of Eris, pick a better hill to die on. I don’t even smoke weed any more and I’m more chilled than you are.
These two things don’t go together. You are telling everyone “Grow the fuck up” yet you literally only have a single website on the entire web whitelisted, and even that is only for the last 3 months.
Meh. Should the contingency arise, I’ll just crowdfund this.
Maybe it’s time for BB to get on the blockchain bandwagon. The world is ready for BoingBoingCoinCoin.
Catchy.
Really? You can’t see any nuance at all? For most sites I’ve a general disinterest in their survival. Boingboing I do. I like it, I want it, I’ll allow ads that I wont click. The rest of the web doesn’t matter so much to me.
You can’t imagine how that might happen?
Nuance? Uh, no. Yelling at people for blocking ∞ because you block ∞ - 1 doesn’t strike me as a nuanced postition on script blocking.
Also, plenty of people support a subscription model with a local login but not a pay per page with tracking by Google/see ads with tracking by Google.
There’s a gif for this, is there not?
also: What’s the main page?
The place you go when posts in boing are missing content.
Ah. Out there. 
BoingBoingBlingBling
Or BoingBoingBlingBlingKerching
