

It also handles things like logging in so you can view everything. Instructabliss is a site that I’ve seen posted a few times it loads pages from Instructables and puts all the different pages on one single page. Usually “more ads” and “more ways to make money” happen after an acquisition. I wanted to mention this first because these are things before they were acquired by Autodesk. That didn’t happen - the site only got bigger.

At the time, it was the biggest controversy, and commenters claimed it would be the end of the site in six months. Instructables did this during the advertising downturn in 2008/2009 when the site needed to generate revenue to pay people and staff.

Needing to log in to see all steps, PDF downloads, less ads? This requires a pro membership (starting at $1.95/month). Instructables is ad supported - there are ads, lots of them.
