Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Honorable mention for project Words Worth? It's still up, but I think they stopped updating ...
Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
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Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#42The Browser rules, though. https://thebrowser.com/
Seems expensive for just curation even though I don't discount the work required for top quality curation.
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#43I am sorry to see them go, but more for the principle than for the site itself. I gave up on the site when I realized that I was spending more time scrolling for something interesting than actually reading articles. Even now, out of their top 10 "best of 2021" I find only 3 of those even remotely interesting, and IMHO one of them is garbage (I read it when it came out). The type of articles I like the most are those…
What an outstanding article! Thanks so much for posting it.
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#44Never heard of this site before, but if I could hazard a guess to why they're shutting down, who nowadays has the time to read a long text for leisure? Not many people I guess. My opinion is that the information loop has entered hyper velocity and anything long form cannot be mainstream anymore. If I take my case as an example, the only activity where I focus for more than 5 minutes is coding. I skim news just readin…
Really? The short story is now a dead artform. Even 'trilogies' aren't a thing anymore - anything less than five thick tomes doesn't sell. Movies are now three hours long, but even that seems to be a half-measure and the cinematic form is now being replaced by miniseries. (I remember when a 90 hour movie was considered long.)
> (I remember when a 90 hour movie was considered long.)
Thank you very much I needed a good laugh this morning!
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#45Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Undark: https://undark.org
The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/global
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#46I am sorry to see them go, but more for the principle than for the site itself. I gave up on the site when I realized that I was spending more time scrolling for something interesting than actually reading articles. Even now, out of their top 10 "best of 2021" I find only 3 of those even remotely interesting, and IMHO one of them is garbage (I read it when it came out). The type of articles I like the most are those…
> The type of articles I like the most are those when someone takes a ridiculous amount of time to explain something mundane.
May I humbly suggest this long-but-interesting 2008 New Yorker article about elevators, if you haven’t already read this seminal work in the genre?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#47Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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#48I sense in myself a disconnect between my desire to read longform journalism and my willingness to actually spend the time to do it.
It's as if I have a guilty, deep-down feeling that the longform stuff is the really good, nourishing stuff, and anything else is basically fast food.
But perhaps this is just not true anymore. Maybe it never was. I always come back to the adage “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
When I think of a garden-variety longform piece, it is often one or more narrative components bolted onto lots of historical and background material. There is some new stuff, some reporting, some original thought -- but always laced with flourish and narrative.
Occasionally this is fun to read, but more often I just don't have the time. There is a time and a place, but as a matter of course, it's not practical anymore. One must carefully choose which long pieces to devote time to, whether they be longform articles, books, or otherwise. There is just so, so, so much to read.
I wonder why authors of this kind of thing don't put more energy into providing TL;DR executive summaries. Is it because it obviates their job? Or is a summary somehow less than the real thing?
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#49Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Lapham's Quarterly: https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#50I am sorry to see them go, but more for the principle than for the site itself. I gave up on the site when I realized that I was spending more time scrolling for something interesting than actually reading articles. Even now, out of their top 10 "best of 2021" I find only 3 of those even remotely interesting, and IMHO one of them is garbage (I read it when it came out). The type of articles I like the most are those…
> The type of articles I like the most are those when someone takes a ridiculous amount of time to explain something mundane. May I humbly suggest this long-but-interesting 2008 New Yorker article about elevators, if you haven’t already read this seminal work in the genre? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-do...
This is one of those articles I think about constantly. Especially when I get on the elevator. I wish we had more articles like this.