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AndrewP posted:is there any way to get traffic numbers for Deadspin pre and post exodus? I'm curious as to how much it has cratered A while ago it was shown that it had better numbers as a dead website with no new content than it did after starting back up again.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:02 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:A while ago it was shown that it had better numbers as a dead website with no new content than it did after starting back up again. That must’ve just been muscle memory for people the first few weeks
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:36 |
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To me, the most interesting part of Ley's post was the revelation that Spanfeller brought him back in to try and save Deadspin after everyone had quit over editorial control issues. And decided to just talk about advertising strategy.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:41 |
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Locked-in-amber Deadspin had the same attraction as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, no one cares about the rubble and no one would notice if it was working as expected. Considering signing up for Defector simply on the promise of no Chum Boxes.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:43 |
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"Digiday posted:Traffic to Deadspin has steadily been increasing since February when it had 717,000 unique visitors, to more than 1.9 million unique visitors in April, according to Comscore. However, year over year, traffic is down almost 85%, with Comscore reporting that the site had 13.8 million unique visitors in April 2019. I'd be curious if in a few months Defector is topping Undeadspin. e: If this is correct, Undeadspin is up to 2.5m viewers. Can't wait to hear the PE guys doing massive lines over a 200% increase in uniques since February... Of course, by way of comparison, Old-Deadspin had 11.5m unique visitors in February 2019. habeasdorkus fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Sep 10, 2020 |
# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:48 |
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Sometimes I'll be on Jalopnik and there will be a link to a story on 'Deadspin' that I'll click just out of habit. But then I remember and don't bother reading it. Also the site is a little unwieldy right now and this seems to be a better link for compulsive refreshing: https://defector.com/all/ AndrewP fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Sep 10, 2020 |
# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:51 |
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the new WYTS about the Lions doesn't have a comment from ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER did he finally swear off that team
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:55 |
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Gerund posted:Locked-in-amber Deadspin had the same attraction as the Leaning Tower of Pisa, no one cares about the rubble and no one would notice if it was working as expected. If you can afford it, do it!
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 16:59 |
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DJExile posted:the new WYTS about the Lions doesn't have a comment from ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER we are finally free
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 17:00 |
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One thing I'm a little annoyed with is the site keeps asking if I want to upgrade to a commenter account. I hope it's temporary, or it's gonna get old really fast.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 17:03 |
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hcreight posted:One thing I'm a little annoyed with is the site keeps asking if I want to upgrade to a commenter account. I hope it's temporary, or it's gonna get old really fast. Do you run a PiHole or any kind of DNS blackhole? I do and haven't seen that pop-up after I dismissed it the first time. I wonder if it is tracker-triggered? If so, Privacy Badger would also be able to stop it, though that might have CDN side-effects, depending on how their site is constructed.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 17:14 |
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I don't, but might have to look into it. I'm hoping in good faith that it's either temporary because the site is launching or that it's a bug that needs fixing.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 17:25 |
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https://twitter.com/dhm/status/1304096401085865984
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 17:51 |
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I wish I liked Deadspin's content better because I'd love to support an outlet like Defector. Have an Athletic membership and supported The Classical when that was around but I get 90% of Deadspin's usefulness out of Twitter these days
morestuff fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Sep 10, 2020 |
# ? Sep 10, 2020 18:19 |
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hcreight posted:I don't, but might have to look into it. I'm hoping in good faith that it's either temporary because the site is launching or that it's a bug that needs fixing. I very much recommend getting one. You can build a PiHole on a Pi Zero W board for about $20 and then you can extend its usefulness by running your own VPN service, too, along with a lot of other functionality.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 18:43 |
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I really wish the defector had a monthly thing instead of a whole year commitment.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 19:15 |
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Pvt. Public posted:I very much recommend getting one. You can build a PiHole on a Pi Zero W board for about $20 and then you can extend its usefulness by running your own VPN service, too, along with a lot of other functionality. I know this is off-topic but yeah, I can also vouch for running a PiHole. I have it running in a Docker container on my home server for easy and clean install/uninstall (https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole). The only downside is sometimes trying to figure out if the reason you can't access a site is because a domain is blocked, but they give enough easy-to-use tools to figure that out quick enough.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 19:40 |
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Lockback posted:I really wish the defector had a monthly thing instead of a whole year commitment. Defector is a good website, and I am glad the Deadspin team is back (mostly)
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 19:49 |
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DJExile posted:the new WYTS about the Lions doesn't have a comment from ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER I want to say he swore the fandom off two years ago in his WYTS submission, and was absent from last year's entry as well.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 20:34 |
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Boredumb posted:They do, I think you just have to click the little switch where it says annual / monthly. Thanks! The 3 other pages I saw with their prices didn't have the monthly stuff. I'm in a month or so to give it a shot!
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 20:53 |
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Kibner posted:I know this is off-topic but yeah, I can also vouch for running a PiHole. I have it running in a Docker container on my home server for easy and clean install/uninstall (https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole). The only downside is sometimes trying to figure out if the reason you can't access a site is because a domain is blocked, but they give enough easy-to-use tools to figure that out quick enough. Agreed. Not only is the PiHole cheap to build, the interface is really friendly and setup is about as simple as it gets.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 23:26 |
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DJExile posted:the new WYTS about the Lions doesn't have a comment from ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER He did, actually. I believe he also skipped WYTS last year as well.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 23:33 |
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Defector is good and I am enjoying reading all the articles. Having a site to be excited to read day-to-day (besides this one) will be greatly appreciated.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 23:34 |
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TL posted:He did, actually. I believe he also skipped WYTS last year as well. He had a grand finale letter in 2017 or 2018. Also he got married somehow.
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# ? Sep 10, 2020 23:43 |
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https://twitter.com/howardeskin/status/1304193361268617223?s=19
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 00:13 |
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Man, the comment section is already in rare form. The site may look way different but that’s Deadspin alright.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 00:23 |
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I'm SO HAPPY IT'S BACK.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 01:14 |
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Henchman of Santa posted:He had a grand finale letter in 2017 or 2018. Also he got married somehow. Well hey, good for him!
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 01:59 |
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habeasdorkus posted:I'm SO HAPPY IT'S BACK. this isn't an empty quote
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 02:14 |
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i didn't notice "so he didn't like a one of my tweets" until i saw this https://twitter.com/david_j_roth/status/1304197678771961859?s=20
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 04:37 |
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Kinda feel let down I gave em 100 and they couldn't get any women's sports coverage into their first day between all the Drew Magary pieces. They do have a section (empty as yet) for the WNBA so hopefully it'll pick up soon.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 04:39 |
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that eskin tweet might be the funniest tweet i've seen in at least a year
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 04:42 |
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Was Taters posted:Kinda feel let down I gave em 100 and they couldn't get any women's sports coverage into their first day between all the Drew Magary pieces. They do have a section (empty as yet) for the WNBA so hopefully it'll pick up soon. We also just had two bomb rear end semi final matches in the US Open so maybe they write something about those tomorrow?
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 04:48 |
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Magary for better or worse is their biggest draw by far, WYTS was one of their longest running and most popular things, and the football season started today so I can see wanting to open with that when they're launching the site.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 04:51 |
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I get it, but it's kind of mehhhh to 'get to the ladies when we have some spare column inches'. I mean the Caster Semayana thing is news, NWSL is having a mini-season (game today postponed by smoke, bleh). The bar's gotta be higher than 'yeah we see.' Actually I'm being too mild here. They ran 17 pieces today, and none of them were about women in sports. Maybe hold the piece on Chelsea Football Club for one more day and do something on the WNBA.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 05:16 |
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Well, if anyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, it's this crew. I think today was probably mostly about keeping the site from crashing while getting some blogs posted.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 05:24 |
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Never was a big deadspin fan but at least there's another option over the terrible Ringer and Barstool now
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 05:27 |
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I used to complain about the tiered Kinja comment system, but the first thing I did at Defector was sort by +1s. I hope all the funny commentors come back. Deadspin's comment section was a rare thing.
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# ? Sep 11, 2020 05:30 |
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AndrewP posted:I used to complain about the tiered Kinja comment system, but the first thing I did at Defector was sort by +1s. Im posting there, so you're welcome
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Was Taters posted:Kinda feel let down I gave em 100 and they couldn't get any women's sports coverage into their first day between all the Drew Magary pieces. They do have a section (empty as yet) for the WNBA so hopefully it'll pick up soon. I mean, the staff of Defector cover women’s sports have historically covered them at a far greater clip than their contemporaries than, well, every sports site in history. So, I have the utmost confidence that they will. Giri will have many words about the US Open tomorrow. For anything more, you’d probably need a site that only covers women’s sports.
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