It's actually a thing that is coming back to increase pageviews. You know all those horrid celebrity slideshows, etc. Yeah. Page views. Ad dollars. Big piles of bullshit.
I've noticed this on a bunch of the longer articles on the NY Times and Vice etc. However, most have a 'View as one page' link or similar at the bottom. I love that. As far as ad revenue goes, it's a cheap, dirty trick that pisses off your users. There has to be less shitty ways for sites to make money.
Agree with you 100%. The execs in a print company turned website don't understand the actual problem or give their minions to find a legit "solution." Pageviews go up if you make an article have 10 pages. Is it the best solution? No. Is it a solution? Yes. Does it have a high cost? No.
Now it is a popular daily entertaiment but still personal blog devoted to the events happening in Russian speaking countries, such as Russia (Russian Federation), Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, etc. Everyday something interesting happens in the countries occupying 1/6 of the populated world. Igor with couple of his assistants are here to inform you about those events, often overlooked by others.English Russia has started as a personal blog of Igor S, young Russian gentleman who was not satisfied with the situation, when the lots of things happening in Russia have not been covered by the larger mass media. So he started blogging about things that were often outlooked by the media giants and pretty fast this proved to be interesting and exciting – both for him and for his numerous readers that started to like the blog. In a matter of just one year it was cited as a one of the most popular blogs in the world. The founder himself preferred to use the pen name of Tim (standing for the “TEAM” – English Russia team which consisted at the time of just one person).
Bravo Igor. I don't see any explanation of why the summer camps were abandoned. Any idea?