Killing the site entirely within like two hours of announcing its closure is so fucking cruel to all the people who just want to save their clips to try and get new jobs. To, what, avoid paying another month's hosting fees or something? Fuck off.
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Dave Levitan
all that's left of like 60,000+ stories
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I'm so sorry.
It occurs to me that in 5-10 years, one of two things could be standard practice:
(cont'd)
(b) companies furnish that service as a completely accepted and noncontroversial part of being an employer of writers/graphic artists/etc.
https://tedium.co/2024/01/31/google-cache-removal-search-results/
Just a suggestion - If this has never been you, (and honestly this is an extraordinary circumstance where general practice likely wouldn't apply anyways) well, pat yourself on the back and save this idea for another day where it might be seen as helpful or productive.
Seems like a productive suggestion that reporters save their clips locally.
They could out the site back up & make sure it is all archived or even find someplace to host it https://web.archive.org/web/20240130234124/https://themessenger.com/
media dilutes authentic experience, disconnecting worldmind from self and living cosmos as the entirety of possible universes, infinite totality our sole metric for comprehension
without media we are the undifferentiated universe feeling itself
or something