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New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
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#52Why would anyone subscribe to NYT when the content is readily available online behind a trivially bypassed paywall?
I love all the great open source software they've supported.
https://www.quora.com/What-JavaScript-library-does-the-New-Y...
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247571
um304 6 months ago [-]
NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.
danso 6 months ago [-]
I think Bostock had already created D3 by the time the NYT hired him: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_....
rich_harris 6 months ago [-]
In fact, the creator of Backbone and Underscore — Jeremy Ashkenas — worked on this article until he left the NYT last year (to join the creator of D3, Mike Bostock, at https://observablehq.com)
Re: New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> One criticism of New York Times that I've read online is that they won't allow you to cancel your digital subscription through their website. They force you to call them. I'm not sure if that has changed recently, but that's a pretty questionable dark pattern. This is illegal in Europe. By law, it has to be at least as easy to cancel subscriptions, as it is to buy them. I love Europe. :)
>> One criticism of New York Times that I've read online is that they won't allow you to cancel your digital subscription through their website. They force you to call them. I'm not sure if that has changed recently, but that's a pretty questionable dark pattern. FWIW, I have a "cancel subscription" link in my profile.
Same, I canceled easily via the web app recently when they decided to doubled down on being another partisan rag like WaPo, feeding off the outrage culture which does well on social media these days.
I see it's paid off commercially, no doubt, as it's seemed to have attracted a new wider user base as the lower quality comment sections now reflects on every political article. Including the NYT selected preferred comments which I used to find held a basic level of neutrality and civililty.
Business is business though, and it's always hard to balance scale with quality.
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#54I love their 'The Daily' podcast. They pick one topic everyday and dive deep over 30 mins. Overall a happy NYT subscribed for last 6 months. I paid 110$ for 1 year membership and got a free Google home device. Great deal!
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#55Good for them! But is it good for us? I don't know how I feel about news organizations (liberal or conservative) profiting from the Donald Trump era.
If the NYT and Washington Post profit and win awards by covering Watergate and Russiagate, and just happen to depose Nixon and Trump in the process of reporting the truth, that's Capitalism at its finest.
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#56i would pay for their subscription if they didnt blast me with ads even after paying.
reminds me of wikipedia.
1) [massive funding campaign banner plea]
2) funds and visit wikipedia again
3) [massive funding campaign banner plea]
.. I don't know, use a cookie to make the banner smaller at least..
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#57As much as I like the NYT, as mentioned below, their unsubscribe functionality sucks. I sent them an email last December requesting to unsubscribe. I didn't follow up on it and eventually forgot about it.
Eventually, they email me around May to apologise that my email was "delayed" due to a technical glitch they had just discovered. Great but I still never got an actual unsubscription processed.
A few months later, around July while doing a "subscription spring cleaning", I called them up to cancel it. The guy asked why I was leaving (6 months+ with no customer support answer) and promptly processed my cancellation.
A few weeks later, I was emailed a "resubscription offer" which genuinely frustrated me as you might imagine.
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#58Re: New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you live in San Francisco, you can access the NYT app without paying for a subscription, as your public library system already has a deal with NYT. It's a slight hassle as you need to go to a web site to get a code every 3 days, but it's probably preferable for those who don't read it every day: https://sfpl.libanswers.com/friendly.php?slug=faq/166904
Interesting. How does it verify that you're a SF resident?
It doesn’t seem to ... that link worked from here in Fremont.
Re: New York Times Co. Reports $24M Profit, Thanks to Digital Subscribers
#60Why would anyone subscribe to NYT when the content is readily available online behind a trivially bypassed paywall?
Some people are ethical.