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Has anyone felt Mashable sort of deteriorated the past few months?
by simondlr 15y ago
Has anyone felt Mashable sort of deteriorated the past few months?
- wyclif 15y agoI was never very impressed by Mashable. Far too much linkbait.
- joelhaasnoot 15y agoFar too many "100 ways to" or "Be sure not to miss" and then their "tips" being rehashing of other people's work or thigns I could've thought of myself too, especially with a little Google work.
- Uchikoma 15y agoSeems to work to sell for $200M :-)
- joering2 15y agoNo. Rather seems to be a _part_ of work that got them to sell for $200MM. Mashable has executives with very deep connections. I say this was more important.
- wyclif 15y agoMashable is essentially a low-quality content farm. Certainly no place for a self-respecting geek to get tech news.
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- amac 15y agoMashable represents what media has become; popularist, global and free. This is largely driven by us believe it or not, with help from the Internet off course.
- gjulianm 15y agoWithout the "sort of". Mashable has deteriorated noticeably the past few months. It was a pretty interesting blog about social networks. Now it's a pageview machine. The best example of this happened when Bin Laden was killed [1]. I deleted it from my Google Reader months ago, there were a lot of articles daily and few of them were somewhat interesting.
- MattBearman 15y agoI pretty much stopped reading Mashable when I discovered HN. I probably haven't been on Mashable at all in the last 6 months, as the last I did there was absolutely nothing of value that I hadn't already seen elsewhere.
- ashconway 15y agoI've moved away from sourcing news through multiple news apps like mashable to consuming all my tech news via a news aggregation app called pulse.
- suking 15y agoI feel like Business Insider is doing the same crap. Top 10 XYZ regurgitated 10 ways and split testing headlines to get more pageviews. No quality whatsoever.