by "Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
Published 04/07/2017 at 20:19
by "Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
Published 04/07/2017 at 20:19
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The past month has been very good and enjoyable to read! Ken Saito does awesome articles, the “practical enthusiast” series is interesting too, David Tracy’s trip coming closer and closer to its apogee, is really culminating in awesomness and all that with a good mix of random stuff, daily automotive and military news... I was even given the green card by Patrick for a possible series that will be tested out in a few weeks.
It seems like Alexa even agrees with me as their ranking is climbing back up with their budget! http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/jalopnik.com
I can only hope it lasts!
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 20:40, STARS: 0
The content on Jalopnik has been really good! I just wish Kinja would stop raining on that parade.
"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
04/07/2017 at 20:48, STARS: 4
I feel like there is now enough people on board providing content that no one is stressed out trying to provide the same volume of work with 1/3 of the writers. For a while there it seemed like there were only 6 authors trying to crank out 15-40 articles a week. I grew a ton of respect for everyone during that time for working that hard for so long not knowing if they’d have a job the next week, and having Oppo, FP, and their new bosses being hyper-critical of their every phrase.
Jalopnik staff can get it!!
"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
04/07/2017 at 21:05, STARS: 1
Oh my, those automatically opened articles after the comments.... Who the hell thought of something like that???
"BigBlock440" (440-4bbl)
04/07/2017 at 21:06, STARS: 0
It’s you. Every other post is sponsored or an ad, FA is shit, about the only good ones are DT articles. I can see some promise, but that’s all it is right now.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 21:21, STARS: 0
I dunno. It’s really hard to keep from accidentally opening another post when I want to read comments. Believe me, if I want to read the next post, there’s a good chance that I already read it , or I already have it open in another tab . This “Infinite Scroll” is redundant at best, and annoying at worst. And the lords of Kinja call it a “feature”, like they’re so proud of it.
"Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap" (ddadragon)
04/07/2017 at 22:01, STARS: 1
Also with longer posts I have to click something like view more of this post. I don’t want that.
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 22:07, STARS: 0
Yeah, that’s weird. I first noticed it on an io9 article, and it seemed to line up with the “spoiler warning” banner, which I thought was a great feature. But then I started seeing in on other posts, where it had nothing to do with hiding spoilers, so I don’t know why it exists.
"Flavien Vidal" (flyingfrenchy)
04/07/2017 at 22:51, STARS: 0
They are starting to re-invest in original content, producing good stuff at least once a day. Give it time, but it’s really pretty good... As for the sponsored content, it’s always been like that with Gawker so not really spomething we can do much about unfortunately...
"arl" (arl1968)
04/07/2017 at 23:42, STARS: 0
What’s jalopnik?
"Berang" (berang)
04/08/2017 at 01:00, STARS: 0
There is more old car content, so at least there is that.
"duurtlang" (duurtlang)
04/08/2017 at 04:05, STARS: 0
Plus you’re able to block the sponsored content. I really do wish all the income to Jalopnik but sometimes it’s just too much sponsored crap. Totally uninteresting products too, usually.
"duurtlang" (duurtlang)
04/08/2017 at 04:07, STARS: 0
Given the success and scale of the europpomeet 2 weeks ago I’ll try to get a Jalopnik author to attend the next one. I bet they’ll love it and there must be plenty of things to write about.
"BigBlock440" (440-4bbl)
04/10/2017 at 14:38, STARS: 0
Sure, but “has made” means it’s already there. “is making”? Possibly. “has made”? That means it’s great right now, so my vote’s no.