 At times the Ottoman authorities enacted censorship, so publication did not occur for circa 1783 until 1884.As more and more Greeks adopted the Megali Idea, clashing with Nicolaides' Ottomanist beliefs, the readership decreased in the 1900s and 1910s.Nicolaides' son Nikolakis "Nikos" received the publication in June 1909 (mid-1327 in the Ottoman calendar) after their father asked the Ottoman Press office, in summer 1905 (start of Ottoman calendar 1326) to allow for a change of ownership as he was becoming elderly.