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We're getting ads again...
12-19-2014, 11:27 PM
... and my credit card has to lay fallow for a couple of days, so I can't buy page views right now.
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Argh. I knew we were getting low, I just hadn't checked in a week or more. Lemme see what I can do.
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Or maybe not: Quote:This recipient is currently unable to receive money.
Your purchase couldn't be completed
There's a problem with the merchant's PayPal account. Please try again later.
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Yuku support's been aware of the PayPal problem for at least two days now, and are working on it. Whatever that means. In at least one case a board which hadn't run out of pageviews is getting served ads, so something a bit more is apparently going on. They gave that board free pageviews to quash the ads, btw, so I posted a little beg in the same thread in the hopes they would do the same for us until it's possible for me to top up the board.
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Looks like begging worked...
Quote:Dec 20, 2014 | Yuku Team | 6000 days - Ad-Free Credits
If I'm reading that right, we shouldn't see ads until they can take our money again...
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*blinks* 6000 days!? Are they serious? That's like six and a half years of ad-free operation! Did someone miss a decimal point somewhere?
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Holy cow. I've been busy all weekend with 8 houseguests for a holiday thing, and hadn't checked back on the board. Let me see what they said in the thread.
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Okay, latest news off the Rialto: Paypal's still misbehaving. We got 6000 pageviews, regardless of what the note says. More than half those pageviews have been used already. I poked Yuku (gently) about it all.
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Oh. Pageviews, not days. :p
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Not your mistake. Somebody was thinking one thing and typing another.
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This makes me think it's counting search engine crawlers as pageviews. There's now way 3000 views could drop that fast....
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They're still trying to solve things with Paypal as of this morning, but I've been explicitly told they'll keep pumping pageviews into the board for as long as it takes.
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Update: The Paypal problem was fixed in the last day or so. Before that, they had a workaround, which I used to pump the usual $54/270K pageviews into the board on Friday.
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