Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/22/vice-m...
Former digital-media darling Vice to end website, lay off hundreds
Vice website is shutting down
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Re: Vice website is shutting down
#32It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway There should be a way to donate a website to the Internet Archive so that they run an online archive on it, basically keeping the site frozen forever (rather than relying on the Wayback Machine which has worse UX)
> It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway
I 100% don't get it when websites with lots of content and good SEO just delete everything. Fatwallet (fuck you Rakuten). Yahoo Answers (hey, I didn't say good content).
Even on my own Drupal blogs that I didn't want to maintain/update anymore, I did a giant curl job, recursively regex'd out the login/comment submission fields and dumped them on s3. Voila. And I'm someone that would take 9 attempts to do FizzBuzz.
A bookmark you had to it 20 years ago still works and I still get some Adsense cheque residuals from it for zero effort.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#33They have 18,000,000 subscribers on YouTube... how can they not have enough money to host a website and pay some people to create content?... RIP Epicly Later'd?
YouTube payouts have hit rock bottom lately - which has, notably, been part of the reason for so many creator retirements.
Ironic, considering the ad blocker ban was supposed to fix this.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#34I think this says more about the cost relative to the value of running a website in 2024 than anything else.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#35They have 18,000,000 subscribers on YouTube... how can they not have enough money to host a website and pay some people to create content?... RIP Epicly Later'd?
18M YouTube subscribers can sustain a decent business, sure, but not one with 3000+ employees.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#36Nowhere near as dramatic as the headline implies. The tl;dr (slightly paraphrased)
> It is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute content the way we've done previously. Moving forward we will partner with established media companies to distribute our content as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this we will no longer publish content on vice.com, putting more emphasis on our social channels
Vice is still in business, but its content distribution is changing from website to a combination of publishing via larger media companies and social media.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#37It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway There should be a way to donate a website to the Internet Archive so that they run an online archive on it, basically keeping the site frozen forever (rather than relying on the Wayback Machine which has worse UX)
> It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity
>It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway
Just so you know... investors would probably think it's just a waste of time, which means a waste of money as they (or their financial handlers) would have to keep an eye on this website. Remember, if they think this website is going to make them under $XX an hour they will just nuke it, they are not attached emotionally or otherwise to this "product", exception being shareholder founders but e.g. Steve Jobs.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#38Why are they still hiring? https://vice.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Vice_External_Caree...
Vice isn't going out of business. Did you even read the title?
I went to vice.com and clicked on ABOUT then hiring for VICE.com. So I think it is fair to assume it is for vice.com.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#39It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway There should be a way to donate a website to the Internet Archive so that they run an online archive on it, basically keeping the site frozen forever (rather than relying on the Wayback Machine which has worse UX)
> It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity >It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway Just so you know... investors would probably think it's just a waste of time, which means a waste of money as they (or their financial handlers) would have to keep an eye on this website. Remember, if they think this website is going to make them under $XX an hou…
They just sell it for $1m or whatever to some company that specialises in running these kinds of sites. They exist.
Re: Vice website is shutting down
#40It makes no sense to not let the site online in an archived form, for the posterity It wouldn't even be a significant cost and ads would recoup it anyway There should be a way to donate a website to the Internet Archive so that they run an online archive on it, basically keeping the site frozen forever (rather than relying on the Wayback Machine which has worse UX)
Who said they are not letting the site stay online?
it says "we will no longer publish content on vice.com" which is ambiguous.
If I stop posting new content, have I stopped publishing? Or is it if I stop serving, then I've stopped publishing?