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@TheIrishJackomon I have deleted your response, and you can answer that question again

@LastFootnote thanks for the heads up... we've changed how the site handles pages with multiple YT embeds, and will now load them dynamically (as you click them) and therefore should help /alot/ in this area.

@garfreek many thanks for sharing, I've passed that on to the video team

@Mattock1987 they contain a coating to make them taste horrible: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2017/03/weirdness_nintendo_switch_game_cards_taste_absolutely_horrible_so_dont_try_to_eat_them

@Nintoz if you know, you know.

@JohnnyMind it may not have been your extension; we did push some new javascript changes live yesterday that appear didn't play nice with Firefox, they are fixed now though if you wanted to try again!

@WoomyNNYes very welcome, glad you like it!

@Skunkfish that's a fair point, the feature has been there for a while but it wasn't as obvious as it could have been, I've added some icons to make it clear when things are sortable!

@Kekshook you should upgrade man, 1.44 is the future!

@KIRO don't worry, I remember going to school with my 1.44mb floppies! The capacity these days is insane.

Already looking forward to the pun-heavy review, I'm in.

@HalBailman you're my new favourite reader.

@russell-marlow I don't expect everyone to understand, one day they'll come to a realisation and wish there was a re-vote option

I've never played a NASCAR game before, but this looks great so far... consider me interested!

@BitLounger oh dear — however I totally understand, I imagine I’m the only member on our team that hasn’t played this yet. I still need to finish BOTW 😇

@BitLounger so, it's four years later... how do you feel?

@NPC411 I'm sorry to hear you don't enjoy the site as much as you used to, things are always going to change and evolve over a period of time like a decade but personally speaking, I'm really proud of what the site has become and is what I always hoped it would be when I started it all those years ago.

On your topic of "life support" that is far from the reality, whilst global CPMs have dropped this past year we've mitigated that quite successfully and you'll be aware that our business hasn't laid off a single member of staff, unlike most firms you talk about, especially in video game news websites.

Our desire to have a paid-for ad-free version has been in the works for years, we probably first talked about it 5 years ago and have only just gotten around to it after discovering the Memberful system which does most of the heavy lifting for us. As others have mentioned it's something our readers have been asking for for a long time now and it's long overdue giving people the option to go ad-free.

@rjejr no, you'll have to sign up to his onlyfans to get those... that's nothing to do with NL.

@echoplex you're not showing as signed up here... do you want to email me your subscription info and I'll see why its not linked up to your NL account, send to [email protected] thanks!

@KingdomTears that is actually something we want to add in the future — and won't be locked behind a paywall.

@norwichred it will likely be more from the user that subscribes, but really depends on how many pages/adverts are viewed by someone that doesn't.

@DarthFoxMcCloud thanks for viewing without an adblocker, that's perfectly OK with us! I believe our partners are working hard to get Canada supported on the code store and hopefully will be online in the near future from what I've been told.

@Not_Soos we don't believe that having exclusive content for a sub-set of readers is the way forward; we want to make sure everyone can view our all content, and the offering here is more about having an alternative option for those that (for many different reasons) don't want to view adverts. Using an adblocker isn't a fair trade for viewing our content, ultimately.

@Desrever sorry to hear that, but that is exactly why we don't want to put content behind a paywall. Everyone is in a different situation and we just want to provide a choice to view ads or subscribe, both are valid forms of payment for our work.

@JetForceGemInEye thanks for the kind words!

@Shrewz @Deemo37 please check your email

@PtM touché!

Wow, love it. Next time I’m lucky enough to get to Tokyo this will be a must see.

@rjejr 33,525

@YoshiF2 I'm told this issue should now be resolved, can you let me know if it's still happening (or not) for you?

@EarthboundBenjy thanks for the spot, that should now be fixed

@Supermczoogle9000 you passed the test, thanks (fixed)!

@Damo leaving me in the cold?

@Scapetti hello again, I also thought that this thread was done and dusted and I hope everyone can find their peace here as per our previous exchange

I don't think there is anything else to really add from my perspective, as we discussed before you are completely entitled to your views and opinions and it's ok if we disagree on how a website should be run. However, I can understand why some of your comments (and ones from others) have rubbed people the wrong way which has caused them to react. They in turn are entitled to criticise your criticism and you them and so on and so on.

The main thing for me is to look at what is said and figure out what is going to be constructive and make things better as often any disagreement just ends up going round and round in circles and nothing actually changes.

Anyway, hope you have a good weekend as I'll be signing off soon!

@Scapetti it's a team effort, and the editorial team is constantly discussing what should get covered next and how, headlines are often shared in our Slack channels for feedback or suggestions from others and likewise for proofreading. The team is human and therefore their motivations and topics of interest will shift on a daily basis, so what we decide to cover one day might not be the same as the next — there are a lot of variables at play. That's also what keeps the site interesting for readers and the staff.

Naturally, all writers want their article to be as good as it can be but the internet is also fast-paced plus we have the luxury of being able to update articles after initial publication which our forefathers with magazines did not. So if on rare occasions mistakes happen they are usually fixed swiftly and with a clear update.

I do feel it's a little dangerous to speak on behalf of others (eg. "a lot of us") as in my experience reading the comments it's a very small number of users that have these kinds of issues with what we do compared to the overall number of commenters and overall readers. Typically we'll do a reader survey to gather this kind of feedback but admittedly haven't done so in a little while.

Hey @Scapetti, I'm Anthony and if you didn't know I founded Nintendo Life back in 2005 as I wanted to create a gaming website that celebrated and covered all aspects of Nintendo and the cultural impact it has far and wide. That's where the "Life" bit came in.

I'm proud of the site that has been built over the years and whole heartily feel that topics like this are important for us to cover, I never wanted the site to be stale and just post official news, that's what the official Nintendo website is for. I wanted it to cover anything that Nintendo gamers would be talking about, as friends, and that's why to this day we still cover lots of opinion articles, polls and talking points.

It's clear from your comments that your vision for the website is different and that is absolutely fine. It's always interesting to hear how other people would approach running a site like this. The main thing is though that whilst you disagree with how we run our site, that doesn't mean we need to or want to change it to suit you better. That isn't meant to be disrespectful either. We always make our decisions on what we feel matches our vision for the site and the audience that reads it, as a whole, catering for specific feedback of individuals doesn't always solve anything and isn't sustainable.

There are many different Nintendo (and gaming) websites around and most of them approach things differently, I can totally respect that as each site owner will have their own vision, we wouldn't want every site to do things exactly the same way as each other.

If you believe strongly that things could or should be done differently, and there is an audience for that, I would encourage you to put that vision into action and create an outlet for it.

@Spiders agreed, the game has been rated teen which is probably fine, but what this suggests is that even with that rating the description hasn’t been well vetted for a universal audience, which comes back to the question of whether Nintendo are even checking it.

@Spiders for me I hope the new generation will learn from the mistakes of the past, people making gay-related jokes were commonplace when I was a kid and looking back it was totally not OK and offensive. The logic here is that unfiltered adult jokes are fine (within reason), but at what point do we make them accessible to all with no filter.

@Spiders mainly because an (as an example) 7-year-old can read that game description and is unlikely to understand or seek out the context you mention. The article talks about whether or not it's appropriate for the Nintendo eShop, not in general.

@CactusMan yeah, the guy that got banned from social platforms because of this kind of stuff. Which kind of shows how it’s inappropriate?

@NedBundy totally fair, it is my opinion.

@CactusMan that study talks of chemicals changing a gender, not “turning them gay”?

@fiben1002 even if it is, I don’t feel it’s appropriate for a eshop description. In my opinion, just because it’s meant as a joke doesn’t make it acceptable.

@WallyWest putting the conspiracy theory stuff aside, "and the water is turning the frogs gay" seems very inappropriate.

Happy Christmas everyone. Hope you all got some nice presents and have a great day! 🥳🥳🥳

@StarPoint whoops, my bad!

@gaga64 I have no idEA what you are talking about

@YusseiWarrior3000 I believe a review will be in progress.

@Picola-Wicola please email us the details of that, this isn't the place to discuss it.

@BloodNinja unfortunately, that's quite sensitive company information that competitors would find too useful. We do have a 'Most Read' box on the homepage which is a fairly accurate representation of what is getting the most traffic over a recent period of time.

@BloodNinja I'll set the record straight to avoid the assumptions. The number of comments on articles does not represent the number of views, it would be extremely misleading to assume that they do, because they really, really don't. Kate decides what she wants to write about and we support her subject choices, which are varied.

If we wanted to purely post content to get the most clicks, the content on the site would be extremely different to the diverse range of content we actually publish.