“But the standard behavior when closing a web publication is to just pull the plug. When the whole company goes under, that’s one thing. But when there’s a parent company, especially a thriving one, there’s no justification for pulling the plug other than spiteful disregard for the work. From the perspective of a company the size of Disney, it would cost veritable pennies to keep FiveThirtyEight’s website around forever. What a disgrace.”
From Jon Gruber, re: the closure of FiveThirtyEight.
This doesn’t just suck for the public at large, the ones that can no longer reference the material for reports or research. Think of all the broken links now!
But also all the people who worked on the site – all that work, poof, gone in an instant.
Say it with me – corporate owned internet media is a shit show, and the sooner these sports coat wearing motherfuckers wake up and see the trail of destruction they’re leaving across every industry they prance into and pillage, the better.