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Greets,

We’re not adding capacity to the Interactive Stories segment to support free members. Even with our limitations in place, we’re still serving somewhere in the neighborhood of 700,000 interactive story pages per day... again, that’s despite having these limitations in place at their current level since January 2018.

I do understand that you feel we should pay unlimited amounts to service whatever free member traffic comes to the site.
We’ll just rationally agree to disagree on this point.

I do apologize that you feel we’re not giving you enough for free. While I wanted to reply, I’m not going to try to change your mind. . You’re free to see it however you want. You’ve used the site freely for 4 years and are absolutely welcome to continue to use it as free member availability allows. Our paid basic membership is $19.95 per year, less than 6 cents per day. You don't want to pay for your own use yet question why Writing.Com doesn't want to pay for everyone else's use -- that being the case, we're just not going to see eye-to-eye on this.

As a long time member, you’ve likely noticed the much better page layout with way less ads; only a couple non-intrusive Amazon ads... Which, mind you, the site only earns from on the rare days someone actually buys something. We will probably remove them in the near future. All the same, we do think this light ad layout provides a much better experience overall than the overcrowded attempts we made in the past to try to support the service via ads -- none of which ever panned out. (Obviously, if we were earning enough through ads, it would be a fail on our part to remove them and to try to cut the traffic down.)

Enjoy!

Best wishes,
~~SM

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