hhmx.de

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:23:07

Genuinely, fuck AOL/Yahoo/Apollo Global or whoever for doing this. I don’t care if you want to sell the old brand and IP, sans content. But when the entity that bought the domain reuses the bylines of the original authors, that’s when I’m mad. The site has been dead for a decade. I stopped writing for it 15 years ago. But for better or worse (and I say better), it’ll always be part of my history and “associated” with me. I’m pissed. And the about page brags about how it rewrote our old content!

Medien: 1

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:33:27

@film_girl Referring to you as “TUAW's team of writers and editors" under the heading of “Our Editorial Integrity” is truly WILD.

Medien: 1

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:35:22

@film_girl wtf are they doing

Medien: 1

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:38:37

@film_girl this is the lamest thing I've ever seen. I'm so sorry.

Sell it to the former staff if you don't want it!

Medien: 1

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:40:08

@ernie @film_girl what happens if someone tries to email “Christina Warren” via that link?

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:42:27

@film_girl This is fucking gross. I'm really sorry :(

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:46:18

@film_girl Holy cow, so they're running new (presumably AI-written pieces) under YOUR byline? @beschizza check this shit out!

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:52:24

@film_girl the domain for my old late-2000s newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot’s Link, recently went up for sale. I noticed its renewal stopped last month.

This post inspired me to buy it.

Medien: 1

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:54:47

@film_girl @ernie this is so messed up

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 22:59:30

@film_girl UUUGHH 🤮 so awful. I’m sad about it.

You and the team there, at the time, were great (and still are).

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 23:00:43

@film_girl also, @ricmac had this same situation…

Föderation EN Mi 10.07.2024 10:25:09

@andypiper I assume you've seen what happened to eightbar.co.uk?

EDIT:
OK, it's changed again, it now points to a consultancy rather than the generic tech new site it was for a while

Föderation EN Mi 10.07.2024 10:34:18

@ben I had not looked, but as long as it is not reusing our content and names… 🤷 (better than what happened to my handle on X but I knew that was a risk for that one)

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 23:05:37

@film_girl I’m certain that I speak for us all when I say that we remember TUAW extremely fondly and find this a disgrace.

Föderation EN Di 09.07.2024 23:26:53

@film_girl Now I know where I recognise your name from, TUAW was one of my regular reads back then although if I remember correctly it went downhill towards the end unfortunately. I hope people don’t get fooled by whatever they’re trying to pull off but it’s been gone for a long time so it’s hard to know if it will gain any traction. I hope you can at least get them to remove your name from the site