The New Obstructed View (and a word on ads)

As you can certainly tell, OV has gone through some extensive changes. While the partnership with Bloguin alleviated much of the work for us (and when I say "us", I mean dmick89. He is the one that does nearly everything behind the scenes, and OV simply wouldn't exist without his leadership), it introduced other problems. Chief among them were the awful commenting system and the ad redirects, especially on mobile. People come to Obstructed View for bi-weekly game recaps and incoherent ramblings, not to download Words With Friends. Traffic has been down at OV for a couple of years now; the three reasons for that are that I'm the primary writer here, everyone (including me) has just been a lot busier, and that we were part of a blog network that frankly wasn't facilitating the easy use of our website (and that's not a slight to Bloguin, who worked with us pretty well all things considered).

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