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How about websites try cultivating their own audiences in the comments section and messageboards, which was the default until these sites decided that getting t
by rchaud 3y ago
How about websites try cultivating their own audiences in the comments section and messageboards, which was the default until these sites decided that getting traffic from social was all that mattered?
10 years ago The Verge had a thriving comments section, with an audience that migrated from Engadget and Gizmodo. There was even a messageboard to discuss topics in more detail. It ended up getting closed. These days the comments sections on Verge stories are largely dead.
- tacker2000 3y agoA lot of sites have big comments sections with high quality answers, like the FT. But of course you are always posting at the behest of their mods and on some stories you cant post at all.
- rchaud 3y agoThat's better than nothing. Hopefully it's better than the WSJ's, which appears to be restricted to subscribers yet is still pretty toxic.