We’ve exterminated the roaches and replaced our mid-home page ad with a link to donate to MacDailyNews. We thank those who’ve donated via PayPal in the past and thank you in advance if you decide to help us defray our operating costs. We’ve minimized the iTunes Music Store affiliation on the site to more closely match its revenue performance. In other words, the iTMS affiliate ads bring in less than 1/25th of our monthly operating costs, so we obviously needed to make room for other options. We thank those who have used the iTunes link (now located in the upper right of all pages) to launch iTunes before buying tunes. MacDailyNews gets a small percentage of each song sold via that link from Apple’s iTunes Music Store at no extra cost to you.
Recently MacDailyNews has upgraded our hosting, migrated to ExpressionEngine, and the site has undergone extensive rewrites of code in order to better serve our growing traffic. These changes have increased our operating costs.
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We’ve had some limited success in the past with donations. So we’ve removed some network ads (‘bye roaches!) and replaced them with our MDN donation link on the home page and also included in this article below. These donations keep us going and we hope will help us to finance all of the recent changes to the site. We thank you in advance for your donation, every little bit helps! This article will ride at the top of our home page for a while.
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Keep up the good work!
I will endeavor to buy more things through MDN!! Long live MDN!
You guys do a great job here, this has become my favorite Mac site.
As a former owner of an ad-based website (now defunct) I understand completely. I donated $30 to MDN just now. 8 cents per day — I figure it’s the least I can do. Keep on going MDN!
i don’t mind the ads, and will click through wne I’m going to buy stuff… but I’m so glad the roaches are gone. Flash-based ads are the worst and they seriously seem to slow down some browser… death to them all! (c:
Now if you could just exercise some creative control on the ads, I mean, what kind of monstrosity is that web hosting ad on the right… geeez. That’s just a complete turn off. Are you accepting ads from everyone and anyone?
this is becoming my favorite mac site too. macrumors is slipping. i like macbytes a lot, but you can swear on this site, and that has to count for something.
Taling about adverts, do your advertisers realise that you’re a Mac oriented site. I just can’t understand why you have a windows only smiley advert on the right. I clicked on it thinking it might be something to do with ichat but it wasn’t. oh well.
def. best Mac site out there… all the other ones close up shop around 10am.. you guys keep going throughout the day..
Furthermore.. I dont have to sign in and get an account, which means I’m free to easily add comments and BAM, they’re there..
Engadget makes it a hassle.. (i get it..)
I appreciate the fact that you killed the roaches! That was one annoying ad. And hey, if Windows only folks want to give MDN money, that’s OK by me.
Keep up the great work. This has become the best Mac site IMO. The only thing I wish was that we could edit our posts after we post them.
What ads????? StopADVbanners on the job.
cpr86,
You should donate then, since you are contributing to the problem. Sites need money to pay for hosting, etc.
With the bad things that happened at MacCentral, I did find myself spending more time here. I would also be willing to donate something, but I refuse to use PayPal. I feel that they are a danger to privacy and an overall horrible company. I have had to pass up shareware that I wanted because I refuse to use them. (I prefer Kagi, even though it apparently costs more for developers to use.) Give us an option to PayPal! Find some other company to handle donations, or another alternative.
Just donated $30. Keep on keeping on, MDN!
Thanks for the ad info and taking some of the readers suggestions. Keep it up!
Top Site on My Yahoo Page! More important news than what’s happening most everywhere else! I don’t even surf to shop anymore. Y’all are a one-click-Mac-shopping paradise!
Thank you MDN for killing those cot durn cock-a-roaches.
And thanks for the links. I’ve bought so much stuff from the OWC banner.
Congratulations on the switch to pMachine’s Expression Engine. You guys will love it. Lots of power there.
Tera Patricks – Mac360.com
Finally, the roaches are gone. Makes my job in pest control a lot easier.
Bugs belong to the WinTel world.
“You should donate then, since you are contributing to the problem. Sites need money to pay for hosting, etc.”
They set up sites to make money. Get a sponsor. Donations?? I donate to charities, not to business men.
MDN should pay us for making this site what it is! Without the contributors it is nothing.
MDN is my favourite Mac site too. MDN will kick me shortly if I’m wrong, but I cannot believe that MDN is a standalone business. The guys (wonder how many) doing it must also have day jobs…
I will buy iTunes from here in future though. Which raises a point: if I use the link and then transfer from the US to the UK store do they still earn?
PS: France and Germanys’ suffering from the low $ is a suitable ‘reward’ for all their “support” of the US. Their business leaders need to kick their politicians – hard!
Thank You?
Going somewhere?
Where else can you TROLL and foam at the mouth about PC writers bashing the Mac and Apple and all things good?
Where else can we Publically bash the DARK LORD OF THE SITH in Redmond and escape his dark force of EVIL around our throats?
All your article pages are too wide. I get tired of scrolling left to right and back again to read a story.
Very nice, MDN. Much better. Your site looks more professional and much less like a porn site with cheap anim ads.