Starting Off 2015 With An Improved Experience For Phoronix Readers

Written by Michael Larabel in Phoronix on 7 January 2015 at 10:12 AM EST. 34 Comments
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For those celebrating Christmas today, Merry Christmas! Whether or not you are, there's some goodies for all Phoronix readers today.

First up, Phoronix Premium users have the long-awaited enhancements to the log-in process! After writing the authentication system the past few weeks, the log-in process for Phoronix Premium users should seamlessly work when accessing the main Phoronix.com site rather than first going to the Phoronix Forums (assuming you've logged in on that system before). The blocker with this has been due to the subscription management being handled by the Phoronix Forums that are powered by vBulletin while the main site is powered by our own PHXCMS content management system. After the latest rework, I've seen reports of only success for now having a proper, streamlined experience with no log-out timing issues around the forums.

Phoronix Premium allows viewing Phoronix.com without any advertisements, viewing multi-page articles on a single page, and the few dollars per month it yields per user goes a long way to support the Phoronix Media operations for enriching the Linux hardware experience in continuing to be able to provide new, interesting content. Please consider joining Phoronix Premium if you haven't done so already in 2015!

For those that aren't Phoronix Premium users, I've been working with our advertising networks to try to enable more relevant ads on Phoronix. The issue always comes down to not many high-spending advertisers being specifically interested in the "niche" Linux gaming / Linux enthusiast market, etc, so often we get various other ads to fill the inventory that aren't always relevant to the majority of our traffic -- heck, Microsoft has been a big advertiser in the past. I've been working with the various ad partners and account managers to try to make some improvements on that front or to at least push less "annoying" ads out. If you're currently blocking Phoronix ads, please stop doing so as Phoronix.com is almost entirely funded off web advertisements. With these ads we're paid per impression, not by click or action.

If you do encounter any totally irrelevant or inappropriate ads, please let me know via commenting on this article, contacting me / Phoronix via email, or posting on Twitter, etc. Due to getting the ads via various ad networks and many of them being geo-targeted with thousands of different ads in the queue, I'm not able to see each ad before they run nor am I aware of many of them without receiving feedback from Phoronix readers. If you encounter a completely irrelevant/inappropriate ad, please take a screenshot and/or get the URL of the ad so that I'm then able to take them to the ad account manager to get the ad blocked.

Thanks for your continued support of Phoronix in subscribing to Phoronix Premium, viewing Phoronix without AdBlock etc, and supplying any feedback or suggestions via commenting on this article or contacting me directly. For those wishing to support the site further, PayPal tips are much appreciated and so is Bitcoin.
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Michael Larabel

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.

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