We are in the same boat as @eesty , evaluating a switch away - as unfortunate as it is, for the reasons in the op. We moved from SMF to Discourse 3 years back. Our biggest impact has been on ad revenue that dropped to 10% of what it was and never rose. I love discourse absolutely - elegant, smooth,…

[图片] Chandra: Our biggest impact has been on ad revenue that dropped to 10% of what it was and never rose. This is weird … can you give us your URL to review your site? Now the ads are showing just fine on Discourse Forums.

I am also interested to know more about this subject and to try to understand why this is happening. Do people with this problem show ads between posts, or just one per topic ? If they only show one per topic, I can totally understand that ad revenues is divided by 10 (it would make sense that peopl…

I believe the ad coverage on all pages other than home page is less, i.e., too many blank ads. I wonder if discourse generates the page differently/too quick for ads to be generated or something? I spun up my old forum backup on a separate url to test and the coverage in that forum software seems t…

With discourse, what I’ve learnt over time is that a subscription model works better than ad revenue. If you have loyal users, they’ll be willing to support you with donations and that will be more than enough to sustain the forum. Have you tried discussing this openly with your community?

Thanks, that is certainly something we will try.

Chandra gave me privately his forum’s URL (thanks !) and I surfed it a little. It seems to me (as he said) that when I enter a topic with a lot of messages, the 2 or 3 firsts ads on the page work fine, but after that, they appear blank (“advertisement” appears, but with no ad). Seems to be OK with w…

I am also having this issue with google adsense. Are you using any cloudflare service?

Maybe you and @Chandra could try to temporarily switch to CodeFund to see if that “solves” the issue. It would already confirm the issue is specific to Google adsense.

No, I have no cloudflare. @Mevo Given my forum is nothing to do with code/devs, do you believe codefund ads will perform at all?

No, I don’t think using CodeFund would be any good, but I meant it just for TESTING purposes. To try to better diagnose where the problem is coming from and be able to solve it. Would it be the same with CodeFund or not ? (the problem doesn’t seem to occur here on meta !)

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使用 Discourse 的经验告诉我，订阅模式比广告收入更有效。如果你拥有忠实的用户，他们会愿意通过捐赠来支持你，这足以维持论坛的运营。你尝试过与社区公开讨论这个问题吗？

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