[HN Gopher] How Conde Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
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       How Conde Nast bought and destroyed Pitchfork
        
       Author : writeslowly
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2024-02-05 12:54 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | This is like blaming the stock market going up or down on the
       | president. Conde Nast may have simply been the last one holding
       | the "hot potato". In the face of social media platforms sucking
       | the userbase away from blogs and traditional websites, can you
       | really blame them? Does Chrome even have a way to follow RSS
       | feeds, or do you need to install a shady plugin?
        
         | gs17 wrote:
         | There's web-based readers that work in Chrome. After Google
         | Reader died, I moved to Feedly which seems to still work
         | alright.
        
         | sybercecurity wrote:
         | Partially, but can't go back in time and prove otherwise. When
         | Conde Nast started buying up specialty like Bicycling,
         | Outdoors, and Wired they transformed them into generic
         | "lifestyle" magazines (10-15 years ago). I remember flipping
         | through Bicycling and seeing 3 car advertisements before
         | getting to the first that had anything to do with cycling and
         | all the columns and editorials contained product pitches for
         | personal care products("What I'm obsessed with this week!").
         | 
         | Would these magazines have survived without Conde Nast? I don't
         | know. I know I stopped buying/reading/visiting websites of all
         | of them soon after because I got bored seeing the same things
         | regardless of the title. I guess the counterpoint would be any
         | niche publication that is still doing well in today's
         | publishing environment.
        
       | omar_alt wrote:
       | At the time this was declared as a user base driven acquisition
       | where Conde Nast assumed that the largely 20 to mid 30s male
       | readership of Pitchfork would graduate to one of their
       | traditional style publications once they came of age. Clearly it
       | was misguided to assume that cash strapped college grads who grew
       | up on mp3's and ramen would graduate to Eames chairs and Zegna
       | fleeces without some VC backed lottery payout.
        
       | kderbyma wrote:
       | bad leadership strategy. Plain and simple. They like many once
       | powerhouse IP controlling firms have failed to realise the very
       | thing that gave those IPs any value in the first place.....
       | individual identity that was not centralized by some corporate
       | quarterly objectives.....
        
       | CodeWriter23 wrote:
       | Conde Nast is where awesome goes to die.
        
         | egberts1 wrote:
         | Even Ars Technica is getting stale.
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/XCRpa
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       | http://web.archive.org/web/20240205170646/https://www.semafo...
        
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