Miiverse Gets a Major Web Redesign, and Introduces Adverts

the starting page is way too full of things.

adblock seems to work on miiverse

"we're mainly getting virtual mobile phones thrown at our eyeballs, which isn't too offensive." Right underneath that paragraph I had a phone advert. Nicely played, advert company.
New website design looks good. I'll leave my Adblock off to support the free internet service.

Adverts, on Miiverse. WFT?

Edit: Ah, it's just the web version only. That's fine, I guess.

Checked it out and I'm reminded that the Zelda Developers Room hasn't had an update since March

I'll be keeping adblock on, thankyouverymuch. I hate how we have to live our lives with advertising shoved down our throats at every opportunity. It's disgusting that we as living beings are just treated as a revenue source for all these corporations shoving crappy products down our throats.

That said...Wii U might have been a success if they had actually advertised it lol.

I'll be curious to see if we get adverts for free Xboxes- there everywhere else that discusses Nintendo!

Blocked. Ads are too much of a privacy and (possible) security issue along with just being plain annoying.

Nice idea to have ads on the web version - if there's revenue to be made why not? As long as they don't include ads in the console versions I'm OK with this.

I only use adblock on annoying websites, so I'll unblock Miiverse. (I don't block on Nintendo Life btw )

Meh, the service is free and the ads aren't obtrusive to by use of Miiverse.

This is kinda weird. Shouldn't the service costs be covered by the hardware/software sales? Imagine if we had ads inside the Wii U or 3DS home screens. Feels like sort of the same thing.

I'm not surprised, considering how hard Nintendo's profits have been taking a hit. Every little extra counts.

They should advertise love hotels while banning innocent people*.

*not me but friends.

Ads are still used as an attack vector for viruses and malware beyond any website's control, and that isn't likely to change anytime soon. I don't care how much I like a given website or content creator, as long as ads can be harmful I will be using adblock and I'd recommend the same for most people.

I actually like the ads that show up on the Game pad in quick mode, they are usually very bright and cheery. Well at least for Yoshi, I suppose they could be dark and depressing when Fatal Frame and Devils Third release later this year. Unless they just display XCX and ignore those other 2.

I'd even be OK with ads in MI I verse on Wii U as long as they were for Wii U and 3rd games. "Players who comment in the Splatoon community also comment on MK8" and make them click able links. I'd enjoy Miivrrse more if those auto generated codes for SMM levels would open the game and go to that level. Or at least let us copy and paste them. Having a code in my WiiU that I need to copy to a piece of paper just to retype into my Wii U kind of defeats the purpose of auto generation get the code in the first place.

@Mogster Not to discount how uncomfortably aggressive advertisers are at times (soliciters in a store, knocking on your door, getting your phone number, the amount of commercials from a paid service, etc), but there is a bit of give and take when it comes to "free" services.

And I believe many consumers often take for granted that the stuff they dont pay literal money for still needs to be funded another way. That's where advertisers come in, paying for our attention and potential money. There is the option to go the paid subscription route and be done with advertisers, but folks arent usually down with that unless otherwise forced. Ironically, the more people try to dodge ads, the more aggresive and intrusive advertisers will get.

IMO, consumers could benefit from valuing their time and content a bit more and advertisers could ease up a little/lot.

I don't like having adverts, but can tolerate them since they help to provide a free service.

This is the webpage connecting to an ad server (one of several on loading the page), sending all sorts of details out to determine what ads you receive. Although not unique to Miiverse, it has a noticeable effect on loading times, and for that reason, I'll actually do something I've never considered, and install AdBlocker.

Nintendolife is the same, allthough it connects to facebook and google too (and God knows where they sell that information), but I'll probably add Nintendolife into the exceptions list.

My internet connection is too slow to have it bogged down by all this traffic.

I can't blame Nintendo for this though, as it's something everybody else is doing.

This is an official site by Nintendo. There should be no advertising.

An official site with the purpose of selling more content should not itself have ads for toothpaste! CHEAP! How much could this possibly earn Nintendo in revenue? The ONLY ads I would tolerate would be for games/movies actually being sold within the store.

@Mogster Nintendo doesn't need that revenue but how about other sites that depend on said revenue for their income? I think it's 100% wrong to use ad block. Nintendo won't suffer from it, but others will given that so many more people are using it.

Erika strikes again...

@Zebetite lol, the needed paranoia of Windows users

Not too concerned, I have been running Disconnect for quite some time on all but a few sites. While currently Nintendolife is whitelisted, I have been tempted to add it on occasion due to obnoxious ads that slow everything down and crash the page. However those days seem to be mostly limited.

I don't see my allowing a page like miiverse get a pass. I get the impression that Nintendo barely understands the web and I highly doubt their ability to keep infected ad servers off their site.

@Monado_III Ah, the denial of reality by OS X and Linux users. Just because you use a smaller target doesn't make it invulnerable to being one. The problem isn't windows so much as the pathetic track record of Adobe and Oracle to keep their web technologies from being an open door onto your system, along with all the Linux based ad servers that are not properly patched and updated.

@DTFaux

I understand that, but the way I view it is Miiverse isn't a free service. I paid for it when I purchased my Wii U. It's one of the consoles features, why should I have to pay extra for or suffer through advertisments for something I paid for when I bought the console?

It's also for this reason that I don't buy subscriptions for Live/PSN extra. 'But think of the server costs!' people shout. No, you paid for that when you bought the console. Honestly, I think soceity in general needs to stop being such slaves to massive, multi-national corporations...but that is a different topic entirely

This explains some slowdown and loading issues I've had for a while on the mobile app. But it's a welcomed retool/update for this service.
If Nintendo keeps the ads to video games,anime,or toy related then the ads are no problem to me.

I block all kinds of ADs, no matter if they're "good" or "bad". I never purchased anything based on an AD they threw on my face and probably never will, there's too much invasive software and websites disguised as ADs that it doesn't worth the risk.

Well, good thing I'm already blocking anything that wants my data, no matter where. However, I don't use the web version of MiiVerse, anyway, so what do I care...

Now it looks like an actual website
About the ads: I made an exclusion on my Adblocker (same i do with nintendolife <3) and the ads seem well placed and not distracting.

@rushiosan You should make exclusions on your adblocker to support certain websites. It's not only the click on the ads that count, it's also just the display of it. If it's displayed on your browser, it counts as a impression. The more impressions the more money the hoster gets from any click.
I agree, the internet is not usable anymore without Adblock, but never forget to add exclusions to sites that do ads "well".

I like the redesign, before the site looked so empty. And who cares about the ads, we're talking about the internet! It's full of ads (and of course, there are adblockers).

What's dissapointing though is that you still can't send messages in the browser version of Miiverse, so I still have to boot up the Wii U if I want to write my Miiverse friends.

Looks awesome. It would be neater without the adverts, though.

@edhe cloudfront is amazon web services, the ads are served by google.

I already use Adblock, so...whatever. I only use Miiverse to upload and save screenshots onto my computer anyways.

@JJtheTexan I would love a yearly donation drive instead of ads.

@Mogster Advertising doesn't harm you in anyway and provides much needed funds to companies. Imagine if you had to pay to use this sight.

Nintendo has shown time and again that they don't want gamers using MV to get to know other gamers and have fun in the community, they only want MV to be used to advertise their games.

That is why MV has become AdVerse to me some time ago and I've gone from an avid user in the beginning to not using it at all.

Ad is fine, but why using regular Adsense? I'm sure Nintendo could find a better, relevant bid to the ad space. For example, give it to indie dev or even major publisher that want some exposure of their game on Nintendo platform. I'm disappointed, that's clearly some cheap way to gain small chunk of money instead of keep their dignity more and promote the game on their own platform.

not impressed, Nintendo.

I'm alright with companies using ads to make an extra dime, however Adblock is basically a must nowadays, whether you want to support someone or not.
Just by running an adblocker your computer becomes infinitely safer, and you don't have to worry about porn ads or fake download button ones. I disable it on certain websites that I know aren't going to throw harmful ads my way, but it's pretty much a requirement. The advertisers forced their hand on us once they started using pop-ups and malware infested ones.

everyone knew that. duh! ;p

Adblock is pretty much vital but this is pretty awful if you use mobile to access the site since it's harder to block ads. I think it's pretty shocking that they've done this, and I'm worried it's a slippery slope from here until it's on the Wii U itself. At that point I start losing sympathy with Nintendo.

The new site is very pretty! I'm quite enjoying the new look. It actually feels professional now.

The ads aren't annoying either, just 1 small box. I can ignore that.

I don't use the internet without adblock. And if someday a site tells me to disable it, I'll never go to that site.

As always, use Miiverse on Wii u and 3DS! They can keep their stupid adverts!

Good to know that Nintendo have their priorities straight. /sarcasm

Ads are still ads, & I avoid them like the plague.

This is a slippery and scary slope.

Nintendo is quite a lot trying to ruin Miiverse in all possible ways.

I know the base idea in some of their changes is to make the Miiverse have more possibilities but it looks more messy now that I have checked it after all the play journal etc changes.

Also they keep forcing all the crazy region rulings and try to do their best not to let any friends communicate with each other.

Recent example being the destruction of the Youtube community which used to be global community where people's only chance to chat together was possible. Now last week they made Youtube regional and have started to delete people's postings if those are not about youtube related. Also it is no longer possible there to comment on people's postings, only new posts are possible.

That really sounds paranoid and childish. You know I am always up for defending Nintendo in various errors that they do, but the treatment and destruction of Miiverse is just dumb on their part.

Just make the consoles region free and make a proper private messaging system in game to the OS etc.

Then they can be free to ruin Miiverse any way they want.