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When Salon made most of their site subscription-only a couple months ago, they lost the most important thing they still had left: their buzz. Whether you loved or hated Salon, in the past anything they published that was interesting or provocative was linked around, posted here on FR and a thousand other places, and got talked about ... which, of course, led to lots of hits on Salon's site. But now nobody mentions them at all. Even the few truly newsworthy items they break get ignored, because 99% of the potential audience out there can't access the stories at all, and the 1% that can know it's not worth wasting their time telling anyone else about the stories because they can't link to them.

I'd guess it's been over a month since I actually visited a Salon page, and that's not because I'm intentionally boycotting them; they've simply fallen off the radar screen.

This article explains in part why FR does not desire to go to a membership operating condition. Traffic would fall 50-75%. One of the aspects that makes FR so successfull and vital is it is free to all. No advertising makes the site user friendly and a breath of fresh air. As long as it can survive on the patronage of it's admirers, I say keep it that way.

I'd guess it's been over a month since I actually visited a Salon page, and that's not because I'm intentionally boycotting them; they've simply fallen off the radar screen.

Har Har, I recall when Whorealdo used to shill for them during the year of Monica.
Whorealdo: "This just in from that fine online magazine Salon at www.salon.com"

But now, Whorealdo has fallen off the radar screen as well. And since Salon no longer has the DNC, the White House and Sid the Squid for a research department, the stories aren't even interesting.