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Kyle! I'm so sorry to hear this. It's a long shot, but I'm interested to see if we have the resources now to give this another life. I FB'd you about it, which

• tonystubblebine 7y ago
  It might not be financially possible, but if it were, I'm curious what the community reaction would be. Essentially, as a fan of LJ, would you pay a $5 subscription to Medium to see Linux Journal continue there with maybe (I'm estimating w/o knowing traffic numbers) 15 new articles per month? LJ's editor, Kyle, and I both lived north of San Francisco when he was writing for O'Reilly and I was working there. And that's what I pitched him: the basic Medium offer is very O'Reilly-like, at least compared to the general web. There's a simple trade-off. Publish behind a metered paywall (very un-GPL, but O'Reilly books are their own kind of paywall), and in exchange get money to invest in the quality of the articles. I'm kind of iffy on the details beyond that. I helped start a programming publication on Medium recently and I don't know if the right thing to do would be to have LJ be separate or be inside that publication. But I do know that I see a lot of Linux publishing where the articles seem light. I think money to the author (or maybe it's money to an editor) would help that. But obviously, there's the flip side which is that culturally there's a bias that information be free. :shrug: I just want information to be accurate! And given the number of Linux pubs, I think at least one of them has got to be in a situation where both the quality and the check book would be improved inside Medium.