max deleted his twitter??
― k3vin k., Sunday, 24 May 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
He deleted his FB recently too (I use FBPurity and it tells you when ppl close out account and you defriend as a result)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 25 May 2020 03:36 (four years ago) link
that means all that's left of max's digital life...is here
*loud sound*
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 25 May 2020 03:38 (four years ago) link
damn are we srsly gonna have to get Apple+ to watch this?
― flopson, Monday, 25 May 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
do it for the Posts
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Monday, 25 May 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
Max helping line zucks pockets smh
― flopson, Monday, 25 May 2020 04:50 (four years ago) link
ilplex imo
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 May 2020 05:39 (four years ago) link
Noticed that The Outline also got bought by Bustle and then immediately fired everyone.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 May 2020 05:57 (four years ago) link
A thing:
https://defector.com/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
More on same:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/media/deadspin-staffers-start-defector.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
I never would have guessed in a million years that Defector was the name of a sports blog
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
good motto
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
lol I can't keep track of all of the "new-Gawker" spinoffs
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
so Splinter was the "new Gawker" but that's gone now and then has anything taken its place?
― vision joanna newsom (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Not really. And unlike Splinter, which was just a lot of the Gawker folks in a new guise but under the old setup, this is wholly independent.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
commenting being a premium feature is innovative stuff, kudos
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
It’s only a slight change from old school Gawker commenting, you had to work to be a starred commenter!
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
more independent media = good. I wish them luck.
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
we should make new ilx posts cost 25 cents each
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:35 (three years ago) link
I’d pay it
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
I should have to pay for all my old posts
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
shocked the 69$/yr tier isn't called "nice"
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
if I were in their shoes I might consider one lower tier for just pod content or something. 6 bucks a month may not seem like a lot but they're not the only patron funded game in town
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
a $1.50 tier that gives you access to a page with nothing on it but a link to deadspin.com
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:25 (three years ago) link
the premium commenting feature is a good way to weed out trolls (from barstool)
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
I listened to the Magary/Roth pod quite a lot but honestly it was only OK. then again, I'm not sure I would pay for even the pods I like better, almost all of them are just a few people bullshitting for an hour about subjects I just happen to find interesting.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
looking forward to the eventual retrospective book, Gawker Dudes: What the Fuck Was Wrong With You?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
they should charge extra to hide the comments
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
sure I'm going to be called a humorless neoliberal feminist or whatever for this but at some point they could consider changing the name of the "funbag" thing because it's fucking gross
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
nah i think that's a perfectly good idea, it's a holdover from cruder days that Magary has otherwise largely renounced and I doubt he has any real deep attachment to the name, so hopefully they will drop it with Defector.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
it's in their site copy so doesn't look like it
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
what is the funbag thing? like a mailbag segment? and now we'll dive into the....funbag? that doesn't even make sense
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
that's what it is
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
one cool thing about the funbag is that no one knows exactly what's in there, it could be anything
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
heading to the post office. anyone need boobs?
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
hold on, let me check the funbag just in case
nope, no boobs in the funbag, go ahead and pick up some please!
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
Just one giant funbag, centered
― The GOAT Harold Land (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 18:22 (three years ago) link
$69 is a hard sell when the Athletic is only $50ish (or free with my T-Mobile account)
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
I think they're doing pretty different things, and even though I've never subscribed to The Athletic so I can't say 100% for sure, I think Deadspin/Defector has better writers, unless you're just strictly looking for reporting from your sportswriting.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
There's a fair bit of overlap in the way they cover sports, the columnists and non-sports stuff seemed like a Deadspin bonus
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link
i pay $1.25 a month for the athletic, which employs like a million writers
i don't think they have comparable business models at all, i doubt defector is going to get a lot of outside funding. they're just relying on having enough old deadspin fans with money to throw around.
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
but the athletic is relying on venture capitalists not getting bored so...
― maura, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
the athletic is modeled off your local sports page, deadspin always branded itself as the anti-sports page
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
oh i don't assume that either model is in any way stable xp
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
if all the contributors on that masthead become full-time employees they need like 13,000 annual subscribers at $69 a year to pay them all $50,000 a year, plus a bunch more to pay for the CMS and so on. That'd be a very high conversion rate of the erstwhile pre-ratfucking deadspin audience, but it's also not an objectively large number of customers. Your Kickstarter Sucks, a podcast which I suspect is a more niche taste than "posts about sports", has 3,000+ Patreon subscribers.
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
maybe the premium-subscriber model isn't stable but at least if that money dries up or doesn't pan out at least it's not because some jowly moron in a bad suit thinks he knows your business
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 22:59 (three years ago) link
alternatively, they need to convince just one or two megarich deadspin fans to give them 25k per year
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
maybe chris berman will throw them a bone
why does every site on the internet have to be about sports
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
shut up nerd
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 23:42 (three years ago) link