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We need a better solution than subscribing to a monolithic news source. Specially when they make it super hard to unsubscribe cough NYT cough.
by pier25 5y ago
We need a better solution than subscribing to a monolithic news source. Specially when they make it super hard to unsubscribe cough NYT cough.
- jrockway 5y agoYou can subscribe through your phone, so then Apple is in charge of cancelation. You can link your accounts and still view things on the desktop website. (I think they also have bundles to make it non-monolithic, but that probably doesn't translate to your desktop because... that would be too convenient.)
- pier25 5y agoI don't have an iPhone and 99% of the times I read news on desktop...
- NikolaNovak 5y agoOh man; I was going to support the GP post, but then I remembered what unsubscribing from The Economist was like, and my mouth is filed with Bile & my brain is filled with pure sheer hate.
- ok123456 5y agoThey made it so difficult to unsub, I just waited until the credit card expired. I vowed never to pay for a news subscription again. Big mistake.
- _jal 5y agoYeah, I refuse to resubcribe to them or the Times. If the only way these ailing news orgs* can survive is by being manipulative jerks to people trying to stop paying them, then let them burn. * Neither the Economist nor the Times is ailing
- wrycoder 5y agoQuestion: how do you unsubscribe on Substack? Answer: <click>
- wrycoder 5y agoHow about a group subscription on Substack, distributed to the authors based on the log of the number of page views?
- pier25 5y agoSo like a Netflix of news?
- jmckib 5y agoWashington Post lets you cancel through their website without talking to anyone. It's also significantly cheaper than NYT last I checked. I'm a subscriber, and I think it's a pretty solid paper especially for national politics coverage.
- gxqoz 5y agoI subscribed at one of their cheap rates last year and didn't find much in it unique from other sources I'm already subscribed to.
- jmckib 5y agoWhat other sources are you already subscribed to? I'm always looking for recommendations.
- gxqoz 5y agoLots of stuff. For "pure news" New York Times, Seattle Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian. Lots of somewhat more general interest subscriptions also have news angles like Slate Plus, The New Yorker, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Harpers, Literary Review, ProPublica, New York Magazine, some Substacks. I realize this is a lot (and is only a partial list) but pretty much all of these listed ones have various interesting pieces I wasn't finding anywhere else. Whereas WP felt very "cable news" to me, just giving article after article on the latest stuff happening at the White House. I can get that elsewhere and am already not interested in most cases.
- mardifoufs 5y agoIn my experience, the Post is basically New York Post/Fox News tier when it comes to the outrage baiting. Sure, a lot of those articles are in the "opinion" section, but even then, the lines between the opinion/news sections are almost non-existent at this point. The comment section is also beyond toxic; it's filled with unhinged conspiracy stuff but from the blue side. At least the New York Times, as much as it's flawed, still has a much better "normal news" section and it's opinion section isn't filled with the most outrage baiting low tier tribal articles. Its international coverage is miles ahead of the wapo, too. The WP is cheaper for a reason.