[HN Gopher] Paged Out
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Paged Out
Author : varjag
Score : 139 points
Date : 2025-12-02 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| Foxboron wrote:
| Paged Out are looking for more articles for the next issue.
| Information here: https://pagedout.institute/?page=cfp.php
| ixtli wrote:
| I'm old enough to remember 90s zine culture and i have to say
| this is _awesome_. Thanks for this.
| bbayles wrote:
| There's a typo in the URL here: > If you have a topic in mind but
| are not sure if it is suitable for Paged Out!, check out the
| Writing Articles page or contact us
|
| It links to `?page=writing.pho` rather than `.php`
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| Thumbing through it, #7 has some good stuff in it. Thanks for
| sharing!
|
| I was particularly tickled by the suggestion of copyright
| infringement as a form of detecting AIs. "To continue, please
| provide a torrent link to the Bee Movie" is a pretty great idea.
|
| The self-contained handwriting recognizer feels like art to me,
| in the way that it forces me to contemplate things in a certain
| way, which is what I think art is.
| ku1ik wrote:
| They were handing out printed version of the previous issue on
| this year's Xenium demoscene party in Poland. Amazing stuff.
| Feels good, like good old demoscene zines.
| grimgrin wrote:
| to settle a convo w/ a friend, how did y'all go about blasting
| emails inviting writing submissions? they suspect automated
| (naturally), i suspected possibly automated + "have had blogs hit
| hn front page", idk
|
| edit: oh, right, this isn't a Show HN
| huydotnet wrote:
| It's freaking awesome to see AI models (handwriting OCR) being
| distributed by printed out on a magazine page.
| ErroneousBosh wrote:
| Computer magazines in the 80s would have blown your mind.
|
| https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08
| twosdai wrote:
| Super cool. Loved reading this.
| gortok wrote:
| I think this is great. I love this.
|
| I immediately went to the menu to see how I could buy a
| subscription, and there isn't a place, as far as I can tell
| through my search, to do so.
|
| This goes for all new startups (non-profit or not!) if you want
| me to give you money, make it easy for me to give you money.
|
| This is an online magazine, ostensibly, and as such I would
| expect to see a "subscribe" page, which would take payment
| information, and I would get emailed new issues as they come out.
| redundantly wrote:
| If you want to support them now you can order prints. They have
| a sponsorship edition that costs extra if you want to extra
| support them.
|
| https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/pagedout
| Elidrake24 wrote:
| There's an RSS feed that is exposed in the standard manner
| (link tag in head), precisely what you're looking for. They do
| not offer a paid subscription, just the option to 'buy'
| individual issues, which is also linked under every issue.
| gortok wrote:
| That sort of friction is just enough to keep folks from
| giving money.
|
| And that's not me saying this, there's an entire cottage
| industry devoted to pricing and buying decisions, and how
| friction reduces revenue.
|
| If I take your suggestion to its logical conclusion, I would
| need to:
|
| 1. Get an RSS reader (I don't have one, haven't used one
| since google reader shut down) 2. Subscribe to their RSS
| feed. 3. Remember to check my RSS reader. 4. Each 3-4 months
| (just long enough for it not to be a habit forming exercise),
| click on the link. 5. Put in my credit card information each
| time. 6. buy the issue.
|
| Or, I could use their "preferred" method:
|
| 1. Subscribe to their email list. 2. Click the link every 3-4
| months when an issue drops. 3. Put in my credit card
| information every 3-4 months? 4. Buy the issue.
|
| Each of these has far more friction in them than necessary,
| and hurts their overall goal, which is to make their magazine
| self-sustaining.
| doctoboggan wrote:
| I think the magazine is not designed to be a product that
| is bought, but rather something that is given away for
| free. A lot of the verbiage on the website discusses
| various ways to get and reproduce the magazine for free.
| Most of the content is submitted with a creative content
| license.
|
| > I would expect to see a "subscribe" page, which would
| take payment information, and I would get emailed new
| issues as they come out.
|
| You are not expected to pay to get emailed as new issues
| come out. Just join this group (link found on FAQ page) and
| you will get notifications:
| https://groups.google.com/g/pagedout-notifications
| grimgrin wrote:
| if you're asking "how do i easily buy prints", that's under the
| prints link atop, and you'll ultimately end up at lulu
|
| https://pagedout.institute/?page=prints.php
|
| https://www.lulu.com/search?contributor=Paged+Out%21+Institu...
|
| I discovered it easily on desktop, idk about mobile
| impl wrote:
| Too bad they don't take security so seriously themselves.
|
| https://pagedout.institute/?page=/etc/passwd
|
| ;-)
| frameset wrote:
| Oh this feels very 2600. Makes me wish I hadn't cancelled my
| print sub a while back.
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