New feature on Ribblr

[McKnee]

Has anybody ever seen this on their patterns? This is the first time I have ever seen this.

[Alyphira]

Ive seen it a few times on free patterns! Im not sure if jts part of it or not, but i assume it might be for the beta testing of monetizing free patterns for pattern makers!

[anon5108995]

I think it’s the promotional stuff on the free patterns… Ribblr has to pay the bills somehow

[Ribblr]

Hey! Check this out for more information:

Ribblr Earn - beta launch

Today, we’re excited to announce the beta launch of Ribblr Earn We all know how hard designers work to create new designs for us all to enjoy. And, very often, designers also kindly choose to give away their unique patterns completely for free. Since day 1, we’ve been working hard to support designers financially, with low sale fees and pattern protection. And for the past few years we introduced game changing features like $elFee - a way to eliminate sale fees completely, and royalti…

[McKnee]

Haha that would make sense!

[Estar]

I was just searching through this topic looking for people talking about this! Honestly, I hate it. I love the set up of ribblr, but this makes me want to go back to my old habit of screenshotting my patterns and stitching them together so I don’t have interruptions. While I do hate the ads, I think moving them out of the actual pattern would help. Like maybe in-between posts in the social section or between the different lists on the front page, but in the pattern itself just feels weird
Anyways, glad to see it wasn’t just me seeing it!

Edit: as I read more about this, it’s good to know that this is the choice of the maker. I still think the ads IN the patterns are intrusive, especially because they’re colorful and especially bad on dark mode, but ads could also be on the store page of the maker, in the description of a pattern, and one or two ads at the top and bottom wouldn’t be nearly as bad.
I do like that ribblr is trying to help their creators, I’m just hoping these opinions can be helpful and as this is in beta, I really really hope it’ll be better in the main release

[anon5108995]

The ads are to monetize the free patterns since ribblr does not get paid for those like they do when you pay for a pattern… Therefore, it’s the free patterns that get the ads. Paid ones do not, as far as I know. If I had to see ads after paying for my patterns and paying fees for selling patterns, I would not be here.
Other sites make you pay a monthly subscription for the tools that ribblr let’s us use without it.

[Winternightmare]

The ads have to be visible otherwise the companies would complain that Ribblr is stuffing them to the side/only select pages, ya know? In the end they are paying to be advertised on here. They want views and they want clicks.