User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Why Fandom Evolves: A Look Ahead in 2017/@comment-5558012-20170112024325

Been gone for a little while but I've been anticipating this blog. There are some very interesting ideas being considered for this year and I look forward to reading more blogs, notably the new product development process and advertisement changes. These have been hot issues and the transition between previous development and future development (Discussions) hasn't worked well, despite users lobbing for a more open process. Ads also need help for sure. As a logged in user my biggest criticism is ads that are not consistent sizes (the main page right column ads seems to be three different sizes now - it really should be narrowed to one). As a logged out user performance is an issue. The number of ads severely hurts the user experience by bogging down a page.