Video: Saturday Sends #45

 @m4tth3w: don’t get me wrong, I agree 100% as a user.. but all the grumbling now does nothing to change the site. Outside has bought PB and as long as it generally feeds their profit margin, they will continue with their bs long-term revenue generating plan, which will include more and more (and more) of this kind of thing.

As old users cycle through the website and new users get adopted, the acceptance of a pay-portion of the site will become normalized and pay-usage will stabilize out. The grumblers that truly mean it will move on to other sites and the rest will just sigh and say ‘oh well$’.

Anybody want to really change it? The only way is to build a site that out-competes PB and takes users (and market share) away to a new site. Pinkcycle.com is an available domain… start a website.. make it good. Really good, better than the rest. Become the new biking Google and turn Outside PB into Internet Explorer.

But along the way, you’ll have to resist the buy-out offers. Radek stated in the original PB 1.0 that PB “would *never* be a pay site”.

There are very few people who can resist the dangling carrot of a fat payout and a secure financial future. Prove us all wrong. Please.

 @g123: build it and they will come

 @orphan: Except that's only an effective business strategy if your key demographic is dead baseball players

 Don't know why everyone is complaining. Things cost money. The ads on PB are relatively restrained compared to a lot of sites: e.g. bikeradar, mbr. Even Vital the supposed alternative is pretty riddled.

 Yea they actually took down one of my complaints, taking a page out of the Zuckerberg book apparently.

 @orphan: Working on it, lol. Give me a few weeks.

 it's actually quite easy to configure the news feed so it won't show the beta stuff...

 Came here to say the same.

 @Moe2344: no we didn't, your whining on the Muc-Off story just got downvoted below threshold by other users and was hidden at the bottom of the page.

 @m4tth3w if you don't want to see the Beta stories you can turn them off in your news settings.

 You gotta admit though, thumbnails and titles of Beta articles are so damn sweet you can barely resist not to subscribe to Outside plan! Hope to see more of these articles so I would finally become a proud member.

 @brianpark: and where are news settings?

 @m4tth3w Soon PinkBike will be boiled down to nothing more than a soho peep show

 @brianpark: do not bore us with facts. Our made up world is much better than this factual place you live in.

 @brianpark: how can people possibly be down voting the boss of this website telling you how to avoid his ownerships adds???

 @Moe2344: I found it! If you go to the bottom of the comments section and click on the below threshold link you can see all the comments that get hidden. Your welcome! Most likely both of our comments will end up there shortly.

 @Sscottt: OH shit that's new, I'll see you there.

 @Sscottt: Even up voted comments on down voted comments get hidden. Just like facebook when it only shows "most relevant comments"

 @brianpark: you can turn them off only on a notebook, does not work from mobile. I believe there are lots of people who hardly touch normal computers and will never find it. The same with post editing.

 If only one was a bit more JavaScript savvy…this may not be an issue.

 @brianpark: awesome didnt see that you can turn off the dumb beta stories

 More money and publicity to the mountain bike community. More trails, more up and coming riders getting noticed, more mountain biking. You know it’s click bait, ignore it and enjoy the fact that even though there are changes we may not like, outside has the ability to keep this platform alive and spread the good word even if it means ads etc.

 @lkubica: scroll to bottom, click “desktop version of the website”, then go to your news settings.

 @brianpark: it's not the point to explain this to me and maybe few other people who will read this, rather do something so it's intuitive and self explanatory.

 @brianpark: im on the desktop version, don't see news settings or any setting buttons. Inside profile somewhere?

 @Garradmiller: Float the mouse over your user name in the top right, a drop down menu will appear select profile. From your profile on the left you will need to select a button to "Edit Profile" directly below you profile image and bio text. From that edit profile setting window, select "New Settings" link, again on the left below your profile image. Here you will find a series of check box toggles to prevent specific tags from appearing on your feed. Mobile users will need to do the same things but first select "desktop view" at the bottom of any PB page.

 @lkubica: Hah that's fair, nobody has ever accused Pinkbike's website of being intuitive or self explanatory.

 @g123: #Ebikes

 @brianpark: btw, you know that the filtering and tags only works on the first page, and when you click "more news", there are no tags displayed and of course no filtering is done? Do you even hire any developers or all left for trailforks & outside?

 Next Saturday, I suppose!

 haha. I appreciated the countdown: 4... 3... (this is taking way too long) 2,1,GO!

 Actually zero out of 8 stories have paywalls. There are now adds to a sister website mixed in, but those stories are not written by pink bike staff. There are also adds on the side of the page and on the top of it too. If you want anything from those adds, you have to pay to get their products too.