Vice website is shutting down

Post by ajmurmann » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:50 AM UTC

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This is why I post on slashdot. They've passed the test of time (but not UIs, fuck beta). Looks like their first posts in '97 start here: https://slashdot.org/?page=8582 dunno what their december 31st, 1969 posts are after that (errors? intentional de-ranking?) Newspapers have a bad history of "experimenting" with enabling online comments and then deciding the experiment failed and delete them all. You're a newspaper…

It's very depressing that all the comment sections from the late 2000s to mid 2010s are nowhere to be found. Also a lot of live journal type sites. Comment sections seem omitted from Internet Archive snapshots, but I find them in many ways more worthy of archival than the published articles that make the cut.

Post by dmix » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:51 AM UTC

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Nothing in that post indicates they are taking it offline, the HN headline is just editorializing. It says Vice is no longer making new content for their Web properties and focusing on other platforms instead like YouTube. There's no way they'd give up the ads dollars they get from he existing stuff... That makes no sense

Those ad dollars will diminish quickly, and pretty soon it will be more expensive to keep the website up than to just take it down.

Post by deelowe » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:55 AM UTC

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I did some work for a design agency that got bought by Twitter.... we basically converted all their different sites to full static and put them on ice. It would have been expensive to keep hosting how they had been, but with everything flattened to static it's super cheap to keep up (although no publishing new stuff without some by hand work or restoring the old servers). All the good articles and design samples stay…

You still have to maintain the domain, and stay on the hook if the site gets overtaken/hacked/defaced.

Post by tmnvix » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 4:57 AM UTC

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Silicon Valley predates low interest rates by decades, and the tsunami of money it generates helped to create an environment where low interest rates for long periods were even possible

This doesn't make sense to me. Low interest rates are possible when inflation is not out of control. Don't you need a money sink instead of a money source to make low interest rates possible for long periods? In a way that could still be SV's doing though. Garbage companies like Juicero were able to absorb capital from the "real" economy to keep inflation from rising.

Post by LAC-Tech » Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 5:01 AM UTC

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Isn't one of the founders of VICE a founder of the Proud Boys? https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-secret-history-o...

Yeah, but, he changed . . . In the 1990s, McInnes was hardly a far-right menace. He was a tree-planting vegetarian, a druggy anarchist, and a self-described “dogmatic feminist.” Some people who knew him then still regard him as one of the funniest people they’ve ever met. He counted comedians such as David Cross and Sarah Silverman as friends, both of whom contributed articles to Vice. [ ... ] But over time McInnes a…