maybe just make it an ads-supported linux blog site? linux is everywhere, if the blog articles are of high quality, i think there are many potential followers
This isn’t 2005 anymore or 2010 or even 2015, when you could just slap on some AdSense ads and pay some of your bills. Let’s not even talk about LJ’s ridiculous overhead of designing a PDF magazine every month instead of just having a damn website (I guarantee you the “print” ad sales did not cover the costs of putting the digital publication together, not even close).
I’m glad it at least seems like the archives will be safe but this is the third timed in three years that LJ has died and been reborn...forgive me for being cynical and not expecting much from this.
The type of web site that probably has the highest percentage of visitors that use ad blockers?
however, let's assume whoever built this blog also know how to not let you block its ads.
1. put a sign saying please no-block, otherwise the site can not sustain.
2. embed the ads into your own blog server, the readers have to block the very site to block ads.
2: Do you really think people who use adblockers will like this?
Obviously this also depends on how annoying the ads are.