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re: Is there a worse news website than TheAdvocate.com?
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:15 pm to DiamondDog
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:15 pm to DiamondDog
quote:they should go to a place where they can train to do better
Walter Football website might actually be where internet aids came from.
send them to walter camp
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Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:19 pm to TigerWerm
I don’t seem to have the problems you are experiencing. Yes, have some pop up ads, but I generally find the website decent and I think it is the most informative paper in the state. Maybe, check your upload and download speed. Of course, newspapers and magazines are not the ones of the past before the internet existed.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 7:28 pm to TigerWerm
And they just wised up to reader mode
Posted on 3/3/26 at 4:30 am to TigerWerm
I subscribed recently to get the Shreveport-Bossier version; the Shreveport Times is less than a shadow of its former self, and the Advocate has some decent local business news.
I hate that (1) I often have to log in, then refresh the page about 5 times before the login sticks and it quits asking me to login, (2) when I am about 2/3 through an article (I mainly read on PC), a box pops up with other articles it suggests, and (3) all the banner ads and weird layout make it virtually impossible to save an article or share one with a nonsubscriber.
Pro Tip: When I subscribed, I studied the two options for a bit on PC/browser. I guess it sensed I had cold feet, so it eventually popped up and said, "Wait, don't leave yet. How about this offer?"
Proceeded to give it to me for $52 for the first year; renews in year 2 for $90; renews in year 3 for $119.88. Full price for year 4, by which time I hope to be living in a new area and reading another news source.
I hate that (1) I often have to log in, then refresh the page about 5 times before the login sticks and it quits asking me to login, (2) when I am about 2/3 through an article (I mainly read on PC), a box pops up with other articles it suggests, and (3) all the banner ads and weird layout make it virtually impossible to save an article or share one with a nonsubscriber.
Pro Tip: When I subscribed, I studied the two options for a bit on PC/browser. I guess it sensed I had cold feet, so it eventually popped up and said, "Wait, don't leave yet. How about this offer?"
Proceeded to give it to me for $52 for the first year; renews in year 2 for $90; renews in year 3 for $119.88. Full price for year 4, by which time I hope to be living in a new area and reading another news source.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 5:08 am to Twenty 49
quote:
Pro Tip: When I subscribed, I studied the two options for a bit on PC/browser. I guess it sensed I had cold feet, so it eventually popped up and said, "Wait, don't leave yet. How about this offer?"
Proceeded to give it to me for $52 for the first year; renews in year 2 for $90; renews in year 3 for $119.88. Full price for year 4, by which time I hope to be living in a new area and reading another news source.
Those varieties of offers really grind my gears. You have people that if they don’t remember to cancel by x date end up paying full price or the paper keeps raising general and your promotional rates because they are losing money on other subscriptions that they are offering at a deeply discounted rate.
Cable companies and satellite radio companies do the same thing.
There should be one fixed price and if they offer a service at a lower cost that rate should be available to everyone and not just to those that are threatening to cancel or a new subscriber to get a promotional rate only to be rate jacked a month later, 6 months later, a year later, etc.
What’s to say the algorithms don’t apply the deeply discounted rates to certain people.
I saw one article where online shopping platform was using price manipulation to entice people to buy certain items by dynamically changing the price where one item may have had several different prices to get you to buy the items or charged certain people different prices based on their browsing history, location, etc.
This post was edited on 3/3/26 at 5:21 am
Posted on 3/3/26 at 5:21 am to TygerLyfe
quote:
AL.com would like a word
It is owned by the same company. I quit accessing it a few years ago when on a single day they had 7 articles on transgender rights. How many people in Alabama really care about that topic? Leave the woke agenda and national politics to other sites, I just want to read about local news and events.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 5:29 am to TigerWerm
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The redirects, the ads, the page load speeds, the layout from 2002
As someone who’s been around since the early dot-com days, it’s wild to see The Advocate still leaning on the worst tactics from 2000. You can’t run a subscription wall and carpet-bomb readers with pop-ups, auto-play ads, and bait clicks at the same time. That model was annoying 25 years ago. It’s worse now.
They have the reporting resources to draw readers across the South on content alone. That should be enough to build loyalty and repeat traffic. Instead, you get blasted with ads, nudged to subscribe every few seconds, and sometimes blocked from reading the very article they invited you to click.
Pick a lane. Offer subscriptions with a clean, ad-free experience, or give the content away and monetize with straightforward, non-intrusive ads. That model alone would increase their web traffic 3 fold, making it more valuable to advertisers.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 6:14 am to TheSadvocate
What pisses me off is when the paywalling of important public information.
Emergency! Shelter in place for the following areas:
Subscribe to keep reading.
The only thing that's kept them afloat for years is state and local public notices. But more of those are posted online only every year so that cash flow isn't going to last forever.
Emergency! Shelter in place for the following areas:
Subscribe to keep reading.
The only thing that's kept them afloat for years is state and local public notices. But more of those are posted online only every year so that cash flow isn't going to last forever.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 6:20 am to TigerWerm
WAS a great local paper until they sold out. Now they just write what their controllers and owners tell them.
People literally pay money to be propagandized. When they stop paying, ads get worse. But the goal is propaganda, even with zero customers, advocate will still exist.
People literally pay money to be propagandized. When they stop paying, ads get worse. But the goal is propaganda, even with zero customers, advocate will still exist.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 6:34 am to TigerWerm
My parents still get the actual paper and I read it when I go by there and it has got so bad, really sad considering how awesome it once was
Posted on 3/3/26 at 6:36 am to thegambler
quote:
Where else will you get local news, a good sports section and two crossword puzzles.
Not sure if some writers left or they cut costs in the department but it has really fallen off. The advocate used to have an incredible sports section I would look forward to reading with very in depth breakdowns or whatever game or event they were covering
Posted on 3/3/26 at 8:16 am to TigerWerm
When georges bought the paper I wish he would have been forced to rename it to something else because that crappy paper can’ t hold a candle to the original.
Posted on 3/3/26 at 8:26 am to TigerWerm
My mom's husband, he is in his early 80s. They still get the advocate. I have been over there a lot and two weeks in a row this dude looks through the sports section of the advocate then complains because they don't have the LSU softball scores. There is no point to tell him any different, but I am thinking "most people don't need the advocate to find out scores of pretty much anything".
Posted on 3/3/26 at 9:51 am to KamaCausey_LSU
quote:
Emergency! Shelter in place for the following areas:
Subscribe to keep reading.
Right! I might make a meme out of this
Posted on 3/3/26 at 10:18 am to TheSadvocate
I’ve subscribed to the TP for decades. I no longer get the daily paper but I do read the NOLA.com website every day. Maybe my ad and pop up blocker is better than yours but I have none of those issues
Posted on 3/3/26 at 10:53 am to ItzMe1972
Trying to read the Sadvocate and Clarion Ledger is like swatting flies. Try this:
F12
F1
Disable JavaScript
Reload
you're welcome
F12
F1
Disable JavaScript
Reload
you're welcome
Posted on 3/3/26 at 11:00 am to Deep Purple Haze
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cnn
You frequent CNN's website?
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