Thanks for the quick reply @anoek, I have yet to see another offensive ad. Other than that, I do agree with what @Towerwood says: three ads on the homepage seems like too much and really makes the screen look like a mess.
Regardless, thanks for the work you and the other devs do here, and hopefully this ad business will get streamlined to the point where it is both helpful to you and not too intrusive to the user.
Just became a site supporter and happy to see the ads gone. Pulling up the site on mobile isnāt atrocious anymore. That being said, is there any reason site supporters need to see this message?:
"Please disable Disconnect.me and AdBlockers for this site 
(Or better yet, become a site supporter and hide the ads legitimately!)"
Itās still an adā¦
You should most definitely not be seeing that once youāre a site supporter. I just checked on my system that itās not showing up when I have either adblock or disconnect enabled, but itās very possible thereās something different between our systems thatās causing you to erroneously see the message. Can you try logging out and logging back in on the device you saw this on and let me know if that clears it up for you? If not, can you let me know what browser and what adblocking / privacy addons you have installed? Thanks for the report, sorry for the troubles, and thanks for becoming a site supporter!
Itās gone now, so Iām guessing it was probably just browser cache misbehaving. I should know better, as I have to tell my clients on a daily basis to clear their cacheā¦
I can confirm that I do not see that message as a subscriber. Actually, I was not seeing it when I wasnāt subsrciber either 
Was that added only recently? I use Pale Moon browser with Adblock Latitude, which is usually recognized by adblocker detectors. Plus NoScript, but OGS itself is white-listed there (the site itself, not any 3rd paty scripts it might use).
It was pretty recent, maybe a couple of days ago? Itās very possible that the detector we have didnāt work on those though, Iāll have to check it out at some point here
Ah, that explains it. Iāve subscribed some 4-5 days ago.
Those can be considered as firefox + regular adblock for most purposesā¦ although Google tends to think otherwise
Thx for all the good work, ads or not, my support all the way .
I am really disappointed. I thought ads on OGS could work. I wanted to support the devs. OGS was a place I liked so why not disable adblock.
The first ad that really annoyed me was for some stupid flash game that cost 4,99 per week. Felt like a trap for school kids.
Then the ads increased not only the banner on top but also on the sides.
OGS was the only website I saw ads on the internet and I didnāt like it. It was distracting, annoying and it felt like an invasion. I felt betrayed because one banner ad was apparently not enough. So almost on autopilot I activated adblock on my main computer again.
I thought it was still okay since I saw ads on my smartphone. But today I activated adblock on my smartphone again. Roughly measured: 44% on my smartphone display were ads. 16% the part I wanted to click on. The rest is UI, etc. That is too much and very annoying.
The good feeling from the beginning is gone. I donāt longer care about supporting the devs. These couple of days really reminded me how bad the internet with ads was. Right now I feel angry. I donāt want to call it greed but having more ads on the starting page than ācontentā leaves a bad feeling.
Ads are not the solution! They are a cancer. OGS should find a different way.
Well, Iām beginning to be annoyed by the ads as well, so I made my mind and I will become a supporter.
My question to the devs is: How much of my say $ 1 a month (or $ 5, or $ 10 if thereās a difference) gets to you? In other words, how expensive is the transaction provider?
When using a credit card directly thereās currently no transaction fee as the first $50k are free through our payment processor, Braintree - but if someday we exceed that amount then itāll be 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. For PayPal itās 5% + $0.05 per transaction.
how do I get in the payment processor business? wow. I didnāt realize how much they get per transaction.
Yeah, itās more the credit card business thatās a racket, they take the lions share. At least there is competition in the payment processing businessā¦
Iād gladly pay $15 or maybe even $20 per year to be a āsupporterā of OGS, but the $5/month ($60 per year) is far too much. And no, I wonāt stop using Adblock.
OGS is a very nice site and I appreciate it and would pay a little bit for it, but you have to realize that youāre competing against āfreeā.
You can move that slider all the way left and subscribe for $1/month.
Is it possible to pay yearly instead of monthly and still be a āsupporterā?
Hello guys,
what is up with this Topic? Is there a new statement from the team?
I thought the advertisment would push OGS, but the last patch was 2015 ā¦ . Did I miss something or is OGS frozen?
If you get not enough money, you should increase the manpower. Here are enought ppl who could help.
Greetings
Weāre still trucking on! Advertising is doing good (and a huge thanks to our Supporters!). A lot of work has been focusing on our backend infrastructure and hasnāt been very user facing. AlphaGo showed us where some of our scalability weaknesses were. Weāll be wrapping that up soon and then we have some really exciting user facing features coming up! Stay tuned!
Since this is on the front page again, and specifically isnāt the place where we bug you guys to open source OGS, is there some place that is? Or should I create something at /r/baduk or something?