http://elgg.net/bwerdmuller/weblog/136782.html We're doing a thought experiment about hosting a small amount of advertising on Elgg.net. The behaviour would be as follows:



1. Logged in users would not see ads by default, but could switch them on in their account settings if they wanted to support Elgg.net.



2. Users viewing pages while not logged into the system would see a small ad on each page.



Note that this would not, of course, affect any other Elgg system (although if there was enough interest we might release the plugin responsible).



We're taking votes: how would you all feel about this? Any further comments?

Apologies for the system outage on Elgg.net on November 14th. This was due to a serious hardware failure on the main server, and shouldn't happen again. We are aware that Elgg.net is an essential service for some of you, and as such are using this opportunity to move the site onto the Elgg Spaces infrastructure, which is much faster and more reliable. (Elgg.net is still on the same server it lived on when the Elgg project started, despite getting around 150 times the daily traffic, so it's probably time.) Please stay tuned for more announcements about this.

Meanwhile, we are becoming aware of a number of courses using Elgg.net as a teaching platform. This is fine, but if you're doing this, please drop us a note at system@elgg.net. Thanks.