MacRumors Frontpage saturated with Black Friday articles- feels like spam

[Prince Akeem]

Over the past days, nearly the *full* first MacRumors front page (and big part of the next page), is completely saturated with Black Friday related sales articles. After this even new articles are incoming, solely dedicated as reminders for articles of the days before. And of course now Cyber Monday will start fill MacRumors front page.

Those articles are often filled with affiliate links, so I do understand there is some financial benefit for MacRumors. However, to me it feels like the original purpose of MR (Apple related actual news), is completely gone during these days...

My question to the community: do other MR regular users like and truly benefit this, or do you want to see less of this?
My question to MR staff: please consider reducing the amount of commercial articles on pre-holiday days.

 

[laptech]

They gotta pay the bills somehow.

 

[fwmireault]

I don't like the deal articles in general on the front page, but MR has to get some income, so it doesn't bother me that much. Also, the last week was pretty boring in the tech world so it's not like these articles are hiding important news from the front page.

 

[WildCowboy]

It is indeed a significant contributor to our bottom line. It's always a very slow time for news anyway with the holiday, so for a few days, things do pretty much focus on deals. Certainly not unique to us.

Things will get back to normal tomorrow. Even today will be tapering off now that we've got a couple of overview deals posts up this morning.

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

My question to the community: do other MR regular users like and truly benefit this, or do you want to see less of this?

Your Royal Highness, I have said before that I think there are too many deals posts, so I generally do not like them, but I give MR a pass around this time of year.

 

[arn]

Ya to echo comments above. It is pretty overboard during Black Friday but it’s also a really slow time for news and is a relatively short lived burst. Back to normal programming tomorrow.

 

[Euroamerican]

@OP. Hopefully, you'll get over it soon enough! Holidays will be over soon It's less than a month until Christmas.

 

[ijordano]

Please in future can these be kept to a separate section, it seemed like endless Black Friday and cyber monday posts