Dear HOKKU subscribers and visitors —
I have been writing on this WordPress site for many years now. When it began — and for years afterward — it was wonderfully free of advertising. Recently a great many distasteful ads — which I have not chosen and do not benefit from in any way — have been appearing on my site due to a change in WordPress policy. I find this so strongly objectionable that, though my blog has been without monetary cost to me all these years, I have decided to pay to “upgrade” my site and thus make it again free of such advertising. My site has never had commercial intent, and I want to keep it that way for readers as long as I am writing here.
Due to the added expense of keeping my WordPress sites ad free, I will be discontinuing my Hokku Forest site — which was specifically for hokku, daoku, etc., and will again deal with that subject on the HOKKU site from time to time, as I did previously.
Some of you may know that I also have the (surprisingly if weirdly popular) Icons and Their Interpretation site, which I shall also continue on an upgraded, advertising-free basis.
I am looking forward to my readers once more being able to come to my sites without any bother from distracting, undesirable, and irrelevant advertising.
David
I’m glad to hear you’ve done this. I know it costs, but I wish all bloggers would upgrade and get rid of those annoying ads.
It was nice that blogs were free for so long, but it seems fair to pay something for the service when I think of all the hours the WP “engineers” put into keeping this system running and improving. We don’t get any other services free.