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SFDebris » Fri Nov 05, 2021 6:18 pm
Well, after six years of bouncing from host to host, I thought I'd finally seen it all. DailyMotion has now unveiled an entirely new way to screw with me. After having shut down the channel without warning at the start of the year, and basically undoing everything I had done starting in March of 2020, I came up with what I thought was a fool proof strategy of diversifying the videos over multiple channels, so that if one went down, others could take up the slack. Well, as they say, you just need to find the right fool.
Rather than not being able to host videos on DailyMotion any more, as was the problem in the past, I can still host just fine, provided I'm willing to allow ads to appear every other minute. These aren't even smart ads, they just interrupt things, usually with the same ad you just saw. And to just round this off, you watching these ads does not benefit the show in any way. The show made 63 cents in DM ads in October, and since it cannot be withdrawn until the balance reaches $100, I wouldn't see the money from the ads you watched in October until March 2034 (that is not hyperbole).
As a matter of fact, this is actually harmful. The YT ads I do actually benefit from, and are offsetting the contraction of income because of the impact the economy is having. DM making an environment so hostile that an adblocker is the only way to watch, means that people won't watch the ads that actually support the show. In other words, DM's creator support is the thing most likely to kill the show.
So, DM has found the solution to how to kick me off, make it so it's intolerable to watch my videos on their platform. To be clear: I cannot turn off the ads. No matter what you might have heard, it is only possible if you are in a special bracket of their partner program, and no matter how many times I apply, I never receive a reply. It's been a month since the latest attempt, and still nothing.
Hence why you've seen an explosion in old videos going up. I want to try to get the videos off DM and onto YouTube as fast as possible. The hindrance is that this requires every single one to be redone to satisfy YouTube. There's no guarantee on how easily that can go. The latest X-Files went up on the first try. Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World took an entire day. That's an entire day of no new work being done.
Star Trek, naturally, is going to be the most difficult. CBS jumped on 11001001 because they felt one of the clips in a video otherwise filled with freeze frames, ran too long and so needed to be blocked. Putting up the original full motion versions on SFDebris Red is not going to work. I have some other plans but they will not be ideal.
Why am I not using Service X or Host Y for this? I have looked at the other options, repeatedly, and it always leads back to the same problems, and frankly, I am about at my wits end. I can't keep doing this. I want to put out new works, and as I found out last spring, doing this stupid maintenance AND putting out sufficient new works is impossible, I am no longer young enough to have that kind of physical stamina and emotional strength. And the irony is that often, the new material is presumed to be old material anyway.
Please understand, "Just do [this]" is the kind of thing that makes me want to turn off my computer and crawl back into bed. I've looked into [this], and there is a detriment that makes it not worth wasting time I can spend on the current plan, which I believe is likely the only long term solution.
I will attempt to have a week's schedule of what is coming updated at all times, with a note of what is old and what is new. The past two years have been extraordinarily difficult in the real world, and coincidentally it's been the same with the show. But every effort is being made to solve this, permanently, and try to keep the fun coming. In the end, the most important thing is that we're all friends sharing our love of speculative fiction. I don't want to ever lose sight of that.
LL&P
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