Also, how fucking weird is it to see stories about the demise of Splinter and Deadspin on CNN?

Likewise. So much so that I often found myself just checking the headlines of stories, if coming across them first somewhere else, but not reading too much into them, because I knew I could head over to those sites you mentioned for the story, and the comments in particular. This was especially true if something…

I had guessed you were talking about the news side of things. I only wanted to state (one last time) how frigging good the interactions with the commentariat were, imperiled trolls notwithstanding.

But the thing is, comments and sort-of-community were an integral part of the “experience” here. Neither Slate nor other similar sites offer this essential side of things.

You’re welcome.

Ashley is basically what happens when you distill the GMG sites into a human and release them into the wild, and everywhere she’s worked has become better because of her

Yeah that’s basically what it’s like. I like the chat format but not everyone does.

I am stunned even still at the loss of this site. I have tried to find anything even close to equivalent. MSM sites are too filtered or fail to cover many topics to any layer of depth (or skipping all together).

Gawker left us precisely when it was needed the most. Splinter is leaving us precisely when we need it the most.

Was. A great sequel to Gawker.

Drew Magary is, at least temporarily, writing Fun Bag on Vice.com!!  Yeah!  At least one good writer can still be read.  Pass it along!

While you’re right to some degree, a big part of that was the manner in which the two things happened.

The commenting system sucks.

While I certainly appreciate this post and I’m genuinely glad that the Splinter staff got to do a proper farewell post, the fact that it’s coming weeks after G/O Media and Jim Spanfellatio unceremoniously suffocated the site with a pillow, followed by decapitating their marquee site is just the goddamn perfect turd on…

I prefer to toil in obscurity.

Let me get in on this action!!

Too far left? Only if you’ve never heard of The Overton Window.

I’m even more amazed that comments are allowed.

Thank you all and thank you for this. After Splinter was killed by idiot assholes, I never removed the icon from my fave sites and would periodically click on it, mostly as a sad little visit to the site that, before its untimely demise, I’d check OVER A DOZEN TIMES A DAY and miss so very much. I did today and found…

Eat shit, George.