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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

How was Vice not profitable with that much output?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

These folks are backing it up, from a post on Bluesky by Aram Zucker-Scharff (@chronotope.aramzs.xyz):

Interesting fact about Vice's content: a full site archive, including saving outbound links, was performed by the volunteer Archive Team last year & it took ~6 months to capture all the Vice content across all the languages they publish in. They've published a lot! They're updating the archives now.

https://opencollective.com/archiveteam

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I'd rather start saving my trash, thanks

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

https://pca.st/episode/26653693-fa5b-4d82-a7c2-683d1b29240d

Vice had a tech podcast called ‘Cyber’ and they dropped a final episode yesterday. It’s just a bunch of the staff bewildered and mourning the fall of Vice. Pretty interesting.

More amusing was that they did it ‘rogue’. Much of their CDN was inoperable, except for the podcast deliver infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How nice. A site founded by a racist who once stuck a dildo up his ass live on streaming video as a "joke" is going to shove a dildo up the ass of all of its employees.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you have repeated the same point as the parent commenter, but removed the quotation marks to make it seem like they didn't do that, so to create for yourself an opportunity to say it again

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Incredibly sleuthy analysis my dude

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