Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
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Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#52I 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…
That Guardian article is part of a series called "The Long Read" which seems apropos: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read
(I subscribe to the Guardian, so I don't know if there's a paywall in front of those articles, my apologies if there is)
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#53Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Longreads is also great. https://longreads.com/
Longreads is great... I actually thought that was the one shutting down and just breathed a sigh of relief
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#54I 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…
When I was seven years old, I had an uncle with a grey beard and an eye-patch that would take me out on walks and tell long stories about his history as a sailor in the merchant marines. He had been at sea for fourteen years and visited just about every country, even the landlocked ones he would say with his signature smoker's laugh. Uncle Robert tapped his pipe on the heel of his boot as we stopped. Not that his tale stopped, it would go on and on, but on this particularly vibrant autumn day I didn't mind that the old man didn't quite seem to make any point in his meandering story with endless fractal-like asides as the dappled sun played teased the pile of pipe-ash on the ground. I sometimes wonder if he talked just because he couldn't stand the silence and the memories of what really happened out at sea.
I think a lot of long form content sadly is long in order to be long, not because it has particularly much to say. Instead you get an overlong mess of barely relevant anecdotes and flourish that don't add to anything other than the length of the piece.
The problem with quality writing is that it takes time to think through and time to produce, and time is not something that is afforded journalists and writers today.
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#55Alternatives: Arts & Letters Daily : https://aldaily.com/ Aeon: https://aeon.co/ Nautilus: https://nautil.us/ Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/
Has the new management of Nautilus managed to keep up with paying writers?
https://undark.org/2017/12/13/freelance-writers-nautilus-pay...
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#56I 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…
That Guardian article is part of a series called "The Long Read" which seems apropos: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/the-long-read (I subscribe to the Guardian, so I don't know if there's a paywall in front of those articles, my apologies if there is)
The Guardian doesn't use paywalls, anywhere... but you might have to create a free account and log in.
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#57Huge shame to see them go. My usage of them dropped off in recent years, but I still greatly enjoyed the curated service. I always had five or six longform articles saved to Pocket and loaded onto my Kobo if I needed a quick distraction.
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#58The Browser rules, though. https://thebrowser.com/
Seems expensive for just curation even though I don't discount the work required for top quality curation.
plus it would be trapped in my email. Is there a backlog to review? seems like a downgrade from longform which is a normal functional website.
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#59I 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...
What a great read, thank you for sharing!
Re: Longform.org is shutting down its article recommendations service
#60I 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…
When I was seven years old, I had an uncle with a grey beard and an eye-patch that would take me out on walks and tell long stories about his history as a sailor in the merchant marines. He had been at sea for fourteen years and visited just about every country, even the landlocked ones he would say with his signature smoker's laugh. Uncle Robert tapped his pipe on the heel of his boot as we stopped. Not that his tal…
I almost zoned out there, reading about your uncle. Limited attention span.