Exactly, and the data shows that too. The number of questions were falling ever since the 'game' of the site became being able to shut down new questions with a variation of "this is a duplicate" in the exact mix of mean/demeaning/dismissive that would get the most clicks.
You say that like it wasn't intentional demand manipulation on the part of Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. They have been colluding for years to manipulate the market between the three of them, so of course the system collapsed as soon as something they didn't see coming happened (COVID, then the AI boom)
I want to see something that works similar to (the way they claim) YouTube premium works.
Get a bunch of these journalism sites together and use a single sign on that catches what I actually view and pays out my single $5-10/month rate to the sites that I visit based on proportionality.
I realize that a privacy-focused community like this isn't going to love the idea of some company tracking all the news/journalism sites they visit, but it really does seem (to me) like the best way to balance the fact that these journalists deserve to get paid and also the fact that I'm not going to give even $2/month to 20+ different sites, just because I refuse to keep track of all of those.
I mean I guess there's always things like Patreon if those sites want to offer a like, $1-2 tier for full access, but they don't because they think their stuff is worth more.
Man, I wonder if they could just all get together and let me pay one cost to get access to all of that.
It's capitalism though, so it would probably have to be a different company that organized them all, right?
Then they'd need to like... negotiate prices and stuff, right?
I wonder if anyone will ever try it.
Collaborative list of basic IP blocks of known scraper hosts.
There's no subscription, it uses servers because otherwise cheating is 100 times easier.
You cut out the crazy bit about community-created levels:
All community-created levels that were ever uploaded are now bundled with the game. You can access this massive library of content from the Custom menu (formerly Online).
Probably, but how would the federal government work with 11,600 Representatives in the House?