I don’t know if that’s literally their only reason but if it isn’t likely one of them they could not have done a more convincing job of fooling the hell out of me...

my apologies...I sort of assumed it would make sense in context...

because they literally couldn’t stand to have people above or below the line call it like they saw it when the decision was announced, apparently...& furthermore wish to make what’s left of the site less accessible as they figure out how to take it offline more than likely...

not sure that qualifies for a tinfoil hat, to be honest...if they had any interest in making it a going concern Splinter was viable...but they didn’t...& to be fair a lot of the groundwork was laid by the last lot...

that is objectively hilarious...

they really aren’t...

that the moron cut’n’pasting his celebratory spasms all over these threads tweaked one of the ones he left you to give you shit for...cut’n’pasting...

well, they mastered the cut’n’paste function...

another day, another dimestore copycat...sorry...

just a thought but I saw elsewhere in these that Poodletime set up one of those sub-blog things à la clashtalk-but-not...

“Really? They had to mess with Kinja the same day as shutting down Splinter?”

your liberal american friends wouldn’t have happened to recently acquire any online assets by any chance...?

“Not to be all flat-earther, but progressive news organizations being shuttered during these times has me really wondering why”

well, if you promise “Show & Tell” won’t be there I more than likely would, for one...

I kinda wish you would...but I know groupthink was theoretically the child of Jezebel so I don’t know where in kinja’s ecosystem such a niche could be carved...

dude, I’ve read a bunch of your posts...

for the record, this whole thread would have considerably more stars if they didn’t seem to have jacked up that element of the system for a bunch of us today...well, actually that’s been just one of the many weird & wonderful glitches kinja & its ad-drenched mess of trackers has been dropping the ball on regularly of…

be honest, now...how does G/O Media come off in today’s news...?

wait...you mean that’s it...?

any thoughts on what Hank Hill would make of G/O Media shuttering Splinter with no announcement & then making it clear the other Kinja-adjacent sites weren’t to say anything about it that hadn’t received prior management approval...?