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The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
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What the Web Was and What It Has Become
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(Score: 5, Informative) by martyb on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:01AM (3 children)
FYI, I spent approximately 10PM to midnight, my local time, queuing up stories for this site last night. And I was up at just after 6am to get ready for work. Then, after a full day at work, I got some groceries, made and ate my dinner, caught up on site happenings in our IRC channels, and then took a look at the story queue. We were down to 4 pending stories (i.e. queued up for release but had not yet been posted to the main page.) So, I hunkered down and pushed out another 9 stories.
Now, I would have liked to have just kicked my feet up and watched a DVD or somesuch, but instead decided to volunteer my limited spare time for this site.
Given a choice, I like to give a little preference to new and/or rarely submitting folk... I know what it is like to wait to see if my story submission makes it out to the site.
I see you've are an active commenter on this site - thank you. Maybe you are unaware what goes into getting a story out. I know I was stunned at how much happens 'behind the scenes' to get a story out the door when I volunteered as an editor.
If you check you submissions page, you'll see that your submission has already been accepted.
If you take another looks at the page where you submit a story, there is a link to the Submissions Guidelines [soylentnews.org]. On that page, among many other helpful suggestions, is this one:
I'm rather much exhausted at the moment, so this may not have come across as well as I would like.
tl;dr: There's a lot more going on here than you knew. Now you know.
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:54AM
I'll exploit this ill-conceived whinethread for an opportunity to thank martyb and the other editors and staff for their work in keeping SN running for us social misfits. We complain because we love :)
(Score: 5, Insightful) by canopic jug on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:30AM
Now, I would have liked to have just kicked my feet up and watched a DVD or somesuch, but instead decided to volunteer my limited spare time for this site.
It really is appreciated around here, even if you don't often get to read statments of such.
Money is not free speech. Elections should not be auctions.
(Score: 2, Informative) by pr on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:35PM
Thanks to the editors from me too. The stories are great. And thanks to the submitters and the posters for that matter.
Cool. I'll go back to lurking now!