The insane thing is that they believe I’ll actually pay to read their article instead of skipping it to read other dreck (I jest) on the internet. And I do actually miss reading The Atlantic but there’s just so much more I can read for free so …
Stumbling across Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog on the Atlantic (I think the first post of his I read was about him making a character in SW:TOR, come to think of it) was my first step on the road to understanding the huge racial disparity in equity and justice in America. I even subscribed to the magazine on my Kindle for a while, but when they put up their paywall my digital subscription didn’t count, they’d shut off their comments ages ago (taking with them a lot of nasty for sure, but also squelching the communities that had sprung up around TNC and a few other writers like Alexis Madrigal), and the normal churn of writers meant that most of the folks who I like to read had moved on anyway, so I did too.
Once in a while I see an article I’d like to peruse from them, but it’s just not worth the cost of admission anymore.
The insane thing is that they believe I’ll actually pay to read their article instead of skipping it to read other dreck (I jest) on the internet. And I do actually miss reading The Atlantic but there’s just so much more I can read for free so …
Stumbling across Ta-Nehisi Coates’ blog on the Atlantic (I think the first post of his I read was about him making a character in SW:TOR, come to think of it) was my first step on the road to understanding the huge racial disparity in equity and justice in America. I even subscribed to the magazine on my Kindle for a while, but when they put up their paywall my digital subscription didn’t count, they’d shut off their comments ages ago (taking with them a lot of nasty for sure, but also squelching the communities that had sprung up around TNC and a few other writers like Alexis Madrigal), and the normal churn of writers meant that most of the folks who I like to read had moved on anyway, so I did too.
Once in a while I see an article I’d like to peruse from them, but it’s just not worth the cost of admission anymore.