So with the retooling of Gawker...

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11/25/2015 at 17:45 • Filed to: None

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Is this going to be one of the sites that gets shuttered? Apologies, if this has already been covered elsewhere...


DISCUSSION (16)


Kinja'd!!! TheHondaBro > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 17:48

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No. King George will protect us.


Kinja'd!!! Berang > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 17:50

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I thought this was just kinja.


Kinja'd!!! Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 17:56

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Yes, the Oppositelock.kinja domain will be shut down. However we have worked out a deal with the friendly folks over at VWvortex to...

Sorry, couldn’t help myself, we’re not going anywhere.


Kinja'd!!! PyramidHat > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
11/25/2015 at 18:00

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Cool. Does that also go for Photography, as well? I know there’s a few photo-related subs on the system (Photography, Dodge & Burn, Re/Frame) so not sure which ones will survive..


Kinja'd!!! CB > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 18:05

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I’ll look into that for you.


Kinja'd!!! PyramidHat > CB
11/25/2015 at 18:08

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Cool, thanks! I’d hate to lose my place to put up my “dig me” postings. :D


Kinja'd!!! SonorousSpeedJoe > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 18:28

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I’m pretty sure that this only affects Gawker Media’s own blogs, since they’re trying to re-orient their own content - of all the Jalopnik properties, Flight Club is getting the axe. Since we’re technically an officially separate entity from Jalopnik now, we’re just another blog that has a bunch of Kinja users screwing around - even if we were still associated with the main blog, I doubt that they’d go so far as to kill off hangouts for loyal readers.


Kinja'd!!! Hahayoustupidludditeshutupandgohandcrankyourmodeltalready > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 18:31

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They’re not cutting amateur subblogs AFAIK, at least not yet.


Kinja'd!!! LongbowMkII > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 18:33

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Since the Great Reckoning I think Oppo and Gawker Medias ties are nearly entirely dissolved (some crossposting to Jalopnik and Jalopnik writers dropping in here) So I don’t think they have the authority to shut oppo down, unless they just want to shut down reader run blogs... which would be a complete clusterfuck by Gawker resulting in other readers leaving in mass.

So Oppo will likely be shut down in Spring ‘16.


Kinja'd!!! Slave2anMG > TheHondaBro
11/25/2015 at 19:42

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Kinja'd!!! LongbowMkII > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 19:54

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what’s the legality of starting a kitchenette.kinja blog? I feel that would be a way to ‘inherit’ a lot of readers.


Kinja'd!!! PyramidHat > LongbowMkII
11/25/2015 at 20:05

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I believe that Kitchenette is going to be taken over by Wonkette (which, I believe, used to be a politics blog that was part of Gawker, ironically...)


Kinja'd!!! If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > PyramidHat
11/25/2015 at 20:57

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The Jalopnik staff has said thatvthere are no plans to shut down Oppo and that they’ll fight tooth and nail for us if anyone tries.


Kinja'd!!! Haolewoke > PyramidHat
04/19/2016 at 09:48

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I think the word you seek is “sunsetting” “shuttered is so 2015.


Kinja'd!!! PyramidHat > Haolewoke
04/19/2016 at 09:56

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Well, to be fair, the original post was written in 2015...


Kinja'd!!! Haolewoke > PyramidHat
04/19/2016 at 10:24

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I’m totally ribbing you. I just went down a rabbit hole. Gawker equals ADHD afflicted folk looking for that guffaw. I get the biggest kick out of some commenters and when I try to tell non kinja kommentars they’re all, “mmmmhm, that’s nice.” Gawker media has taught me that the comments can be better than the story. Preaching to the choir Iknow...