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by 5h 4047 days ago
Hi Boris,

Props for replying - communicating in the face of adversity isn't fun I know, so thank you for that!

I'll try to put my thoughts together in an email for you, but just incase I don't get around to it here's a seat-of-my-pants synopsis before I get into work.

Make the back-to-article functionality discoverable, tell your uses they need to hover over the article / press c / whatever to close the ad, tell people the content is over ----> there.

Techie audiences like here are more likely to not have their hands on a mouse, If I have to take my hands off the keyboard to click on the ad it's annoying also.

Think of you power users, I open a bunch of tabs then flick through them a bit later - This meant I missed the transition where it goes off to one side. I thought your website was a pop-under type exploit - not so hot! use the windows focus & blur events to activate your ad

Seeing the article for a second, then watching it fuck-off to never-never land is really annoying, It's like someone switching the TV off just after kick-off in a game of football.

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All great feedback. Will how much we can implement and how fast.