So long as the adverts are not crass or misleading, I think it's an acceptable price for the value we get from RTD. They seem to be doing a fairly good job of making them unobtrusive.
On 9 December 2016 at 07:44, Carol Willing <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thanks Matthias for linking the original discussion. Paul, while I agree > with you that an ad-free experience has its merits, there is also value in > supporting the sustainability of ReadTheDocs, one of the most used open > source services. While we can certainly revisit the decision to have the > small ad on the sidebar, the team, back in March, felt that the benefit of > supporting the sustainability of RTD was important and outweighed the > distraction of a small ad. > > I've personally been a Gold contributor to ReadTheDocs for a long time > since I believe their service makes documentation more accessible and > helpful. There are some good Talk Python to Me podcasts that discuss the > RTD and open source sustainability. I would be happy to chat more about > sustainability when I see you next week. > > I don't have strong objections about removing the ads as long as > ReadTheDocs receives similar financial income from Jupyter to sustain the > RTD project. > > Here are some additional links re: sustainability and Jupyter popularity > on RTD: > > > - https://readthedocs.org/sustainability/ A fundraising campaign and > its results > - https://blog.readthedocs.com/read-the-docs-2015-stats/ Stats from > 2015 usage of RTD > - https://www.seethestats.com/site/readthedocs.org Stats from the last > 30 days on RTD usage. Interestingly, Jupyter documentation is among the > most visited documentation. > > Warmly, > > Carol > > *Carol Willing* > > Research Software Engineer, Project Jupyter > Cal Poly San Luis Obispo > > Director, Python Software Foundation > > Strengths: Empathy, Relator, Ideation, Strategic, Learner > > Sent from Nylas N1 > <https://link.nylas.com/link/68p140bimyedpd78wkdi7pwew/local-d11df4aa-ce37/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fnylas.com%2Fn1%3Fref%3Dn1&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t>, > the extensible, open source mail client. > > On Dec 8 2016, at 6:22 pm, Paul Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I've been away for a while, but now that I'm back, I wanted to chime in >> that I was jolted by viewing our docs on a site that inserts >> advertisements, it cheapens the experience and somehow undermines their >> authority for me. >> >> According to this blog entry, this started happening in March of this >> year: >> https://blog.readthedocs.com/ads-on-read-the-docs/ >> <https://blog.readthedocs.com/ads-on-read-the-docs/&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t> >> >> There is an opting out policy listed on there, and I just wanted to bring >> this up as something we should do, and gauge how other people feel about it. >> >> I'm not sure who's in charge of our readthedocs integration, but while we >> have some grant money, could we figure out how much a gold subscription >> would be? >> >> best, >> -- >> _ >> / \ >> A* \^ - >> ,./ _.`\\ / \ >> / ,--.S \/ \ >> / `"~,_ \ \ >> __o ? >> _ \<,_ /:\ >> --(_)/-(_)----.../ | \ >> --------------.......J >> Paul Ivanov >> http://pirsquared.org >> <http://pirsquared.org&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t> | GPG/PGP key >> id: 0x0F3E28F7 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Project Jupyter" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >> msgid/jupyter/CAKCGbV7d0JGMfqnLqXyvruhREFMQRuhbGVQvcjhgcMY958AKjw%40mail. >> gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAKCGbV7d0JGMfqnLqXyvruhREFMQRuhbGVQvcjhgcMY958AKjw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout&r=anVweXRlckBnb29nbGVncm91cHMuY29t>. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jupyter/5oqe061kp7vdikc4dyw4o1m43-2147483647%40mailer.nylas.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/5oqe061kp7vdikc4dyw4o1m43-2147483647%40mailer.nylas.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. 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