You're here for the fic; all of it is also on my personal site.
I'm sure Cohost can shift enough artist alley pre-sales, whatever their metric for "enough" is, purely from the tittering in-joke crowd; but asking people to throw ten bucks at sincere advertising when nobody knows where on the site these things will be or how they'll be presented is, uh
why are they so fucking bad at communicating
I'm almost certain it'll be another view entirely (like the following/drafts tabs) since they were so opposed to letting people run in-timeline/sidebar/footer/etc. ads.
Whatever they end up going with, I don't think it'll end up being a super effective place to run actual ads
That's been my general impression from what they have said, yeah
Ah, I just realized that if you click on link to the sign up form there's a preview of what an individual ad looks like as you're filling it out: https://cohost.org/rc/artist-alley/create
I imagine these will be displayed in a grid separated by category, and probably sorted randomly, but that's just a guess
They're definitely relying on those exact people to pay initially regardless, then for that to demonstrate the concept to everyone else.
Like, I give cohost more leeway than I would most places, but I find myself having less to give over time when it looks like they take it for granted that everyone will give them that allowance.
