As of right now VULKK.com stops the Push Notifications pop-up and this entire feature on the site. I will no longer ask for your consent to send you push notifications on your Desktops and mobile devices nor will I send you notifications.
The pop-up that appears almost immediately after you arrive on the site, asking you to sign up for Notifications, has been one of the most annoying things for new visitors.
I made this decision in order to improve user experience and as part of something very big coming very soon to the site. I have decided to leave this feature behind and stop using it. It lasted nearly three years here since its initial launch in February 2018.
From this moment going forward and at least for the near future, VULKK.com will not be asking for your consent to receive notifications nor will the site send ones to current subscribers.
I would like to thank to the many thousands of subscribers who have used this feature. and apologize to them for discontinuing it. Nobody knows what the future holds. I may one day decide to revisit this in a new and improved (less annoying) format.
The truth is that while this feature had a huge amount of subscribers, it was still a very small percentage from the total number of visitors and users on the site. And one pop-up less is a huge benefit in my eyes.
While I focus on a small number of video games and movies franchises, they are still very diverse and not all of the audience enjoys them all. Spamming you with notifications for content you are not interested in while waiting for the one notification you do want to receive, is not a good turn-around for me.
The massive site redesign and upgrade I have been mentioning here and there lately is planned for January and February 2021 and improving pagespeed, clearing up the clutter where possible, redesigning things to match the highest and newest standards of the modern web, are not my only goals.
Removing some features the site has that are annoying to visitors, is also a great strive for me. Remember that annoying pop-up you were seeing with “related stories”? Yeah, it didn’t live long on the site, did it?
The GDPR pop-up is here to stay, unfortunately, for all EU citizens. It will stay. There is no way around it.
The ads will continue to be served as they are the source of income that allows me to keep the site up, provide fresh new content and always be up-to-date with everything modern on the hardware front when it comes to site performance, server quality and stability and last, but not least – my personal hardware and software tools and needs for the content I create.
While I realize that some of you liked the Notifications feature, I’d like to inform you that I did not use it for all new posts on the site. The best way for you to always be on top of things is to frequently visit the VULKK.com home page and check what’s new.
Alternatively you can subscribe to receive the Weekly Newsletter. I expect this one will get its turn to be upgraded and redesigned soon too. VULKK.com is on Google News as well. If you use that platform to get your news, subscribe there as well!
Speaking of the home page, it is very likely to look totally different in the beginning of next year.
And finally – I am starting the massive redesign project with a hosting upgrade. Today between 12:00 and 13:00 GMT VULKK.com might be down for a brief period of time as I perform a big hosting upgrade as a first step to for the next phase early next year
Enjoy your stay here! Thank you all for using VULKK.com!
