Mail & Guardian disappears behind paywall

[rwenzori]

Am I missing something?

Try to read an M&G article and you get "Mail & Guardian Subscriber Content". For most of them anyway.

If this is new, they must really be in the poo.

 

[Arthur]

They're in the poo. This week's editorial is incoherent.

 

[ToxicBunny]

I can only think that they've got an issue with the site....

This is definitely new, and if this is what they're going to do then I will stop reading M&G.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Sad times. Maybe it's behind a pay wall for a short time before opening up?

 

[MickeyD]

Sad times. Maybe it's behind a pay wall for a short time before opening up?

Doubt it... looks like it's permanent.

 

[ponder]

That's the end of them then. There will be very little uptake for their pay service.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Doubt it... looks like it's permanent.

I meant on specific articles. Same way they delay putting up their usual investigative stories on the website on the day the paper is released.

 

[MickeyD]

/rubs me crystal balls...

/dons tinfoil hat

This is the beginning of the end for free news sites and places where the public can freely participate (in many cases anonymously) on a forum to air their views. A few of us predicted this when the legislation was amended allowing the FPB to censor online content. Read more here: http://www.r2k.org.za/2015/03/10/st...ations-boards-attempt-to-censor-the-internet/

Do yourself a favour and look for the list of most visited local web sites and start scratching off the sites who are either closing down their comments' sections or converting to pay sites, which will also allow them to control their comments' section, as you would no longer be anonymous.

 

[MickeyD]

"News" sites - May 2015

news24.com
timeslive.co.za
ewn.co.za
msn.com
mybroadband.co.za
iol.co.za
mg.co.za
sowetanlive.co.za

I have deleted the non-news sites and the 'other .24" sites...
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/125498-biggest-websites-in-sa.html

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

The M&G lost 30% of their circulation between last year and this year.

They are struggling.

 

[supersunbird]

Does http://www.bdlive.co.za/ still do the paysite thing or did that guy give up?

 

[LazyLion]

R650.00 for one year? Are they nuts?

 

[OMB]

Does http://www.bdlive.co.za/ still do the paysite thing or did that guy give up?

look at this page and tell me what you think?

http://www.bdlive.co.za/?filter=subscription&option=no

 

[supersunbird]

look at this page and tell me what you think?

http://www.bdlive.co.za/?filter=subscription&option=no

Shows me a blank space below the logo/top menu area. Don't know what your filter filters

The reason I asked, because in the past (like 2 years back) it allowed you 10 articles a month free, I opened a few articles but it didn't pop up anything counting it down like in the past.

 

[rwenzori]

That's the end of them then. There will be very little uptake for their pay service.

I figure they'll be gone in a few months, if not sooner. They seem desperate.

You can still access the abysmal drivel called "Thought Leader" it seems. Pity.

 

[schumi]

R650.00 for one year? Are they nuts?

That is sad,I would not mind paying for their content since most of it is investigative and their own original content and not just republished news wire articles, But R650 is too much for an online version

 

[cybershark]

https://twitter.com/mailandguardian/status/642318008812220416

 

[rwenzori]

So well-mannered.

 

[LazyLion]

 

[biometrics]

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Can't wait till Monday?