The wall street journal is huge in comparison both in readerbase and content. Before the charge for pdf version there were a large amount of downloads which be

The wall street journal is huge in comparison both in readerbase and content. Before the charge for pdf version there were a large amount of downloads which bearswithclaws used to appeal to advertisers now he doesn't even release numbers openly on the site so I would assume it went down quite a bit. Edit: it also gets less traction on hacker news, and comments are far more negative, where before it was praise and discussing the content and quality.