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The Awl, 2009-2018
- Q6T46nT668w6i3m 9y agoRIP A fantastic website that rekindled the spirit of my early web experience reading Suck, et. al. It published an uncanny number of unpublished writers that would create ballyhooed careers. More importantly, they, uniquely, published numerous people that would write one fantastic piece and didn’t chase a writing career (leaving everything out on the proverbial field).
- lazyjones 9y agoPerhaps you could have cut some running costs by not using images with 12MB (displayed as 461x151 px) on the main page?
- ghostcluster 9y agoIt had a good period of influence with some cool stories and writers, but I honestly hadn't come across a story from The Awl organically since around 2015.
- dmart 9y agoI personally stopped reading when they switched from Wordpress to Medium - found out recently that they switched back after a year, but it was too late at that point.
- ghostcluster 9y agoSimilarly, I abandoned The Onion and AV Club when they were acquired by Univision and moved to "Kinja". When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. They killed their community and turned all their content to sludge.
- alexkavon 9y agoAgreed. AV Club is a gossip rag now. The Onion is spot on and hilarious as usual, but Kinja is a terrible discovery and reading experience so I don't blame you.
- kmfrk 9y agoI really loved how The Hairpin, Awl, and Toast brought back the bloggy atmosphere other sites and publications abandoned. Hopefully we'll still love to see quirky CMSes that hark back to the good old days of Blogspot, Typepad, and LiveJournal.
- zcarter 9y agoFor a flavor of the content that is being reminisced, an old favorite: https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcrib-as-arbitrage/ https://www.theawl.com/2011/11/a-conspiracy-of-hogs-the-mcri...
- JustAnotherPat 9y agoThe Awl and Hairpin were destined to die because the people who wrote/would write for them would never be satisfied being poor past their 20's. It was a 'labor of love' from the glamorous set.
- sinemetu11 9y agoSad to see The Awl go away. I've really enjoyed it the last couple years. Best of luck to the team!
- th0ma5 9y agoMaybe I'm weird but it seemed like there was always just too much stuff being published daily? The Verge is like this too. Anyway, the stuff I did manage to get at was always good.