Scripting News: Monday, August 21, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023 Every time I click on a NYT link they try to upsell me before they let me read. I am a paying subscriber. I look forward to being a non-subscriber if this goes on much longer. # A few weeks ago my news product passed the home page in daily reloads. As of yesterday it's more than double flow. It makes sense. The news changes more frequently, includes everything that's on the home page and much more. It of course was created and managed by FeedLand . # The programming priesthood # This paragraph in Google and HTTP really resonates. # Google is doing what the programming priesthood always does, building the barrier to entry higher, making things more complicated, giving themselves an exclusive. This means only super nerds will be able to put up sites. And we will lose a lot of sites that were quickly posted on a whim, over the 25 years the web has existed, by people that didn't fully understand what they were ...
