Exactly, we all know why the quality has suffered, the sites are no longer passion projects, they’re click generators and the listicles are proof of that. I don’t blame the writers so much as the management, I’m sure it’s been decreed from above. Yes, sites need to generate revenue, but when the passion and integrity…

You’re hitting on something important. Comments are what makes the articles on a well run site “sticky”, and my abandoning comments functionality, and limiting discussion the GMG family has become effectively unusable.

Exactly. I got perma-greyed on Earther. Thirty five years in the industry. I know more than all their writers put together about environmental issues, but they didn’t want to be contradicted. Kinja is dying on the vine. If Emslie leaves, it’s truly over. I like Streeter, but GMG confining her talent to listicles is a…

Damn, that pretty much sums it up right there.

So much this

Indeed. Right now they’re still on the company’s dime and must abide by the rules.

I’ll probably still check in most days, but not my multiple times a day to see if Torch has released an article about taillights or either of these two have fixed something in an unorthodox way.

Best of luck in your future endeavors, its been a pleasure reading your work here. Especially the mad ravings of Torch.

It’s not just David and Jason leaving man. It’s the broken comments system. It’s the constant listicles. It’s the lack of proof reading, the lazy reprints of articles, the ill advised hot takes like the “It’s okay people are robbing trains because they lost their jobs” article from a few weeks ago.

David and Tracy ARE Jalopnik.  Everything else is just filler until they post something.  

Who are you again?

I would suspect Jalopnik would not link to a competitor

Agreed, but if you’ve made the mistake multiple times in different articles, you’d think you’d go out of your way to check for it, no?

Same, Tracy and Torch were the only thing keeping this site in my daily rotation, so Jalop will be getting subbed out for whatever their next project is

Finally, this may be the push I need to stop visiting this site. You guys were the only ones that made it bearable. Best of luck in your future endeavors! 

Dang, is this the end of Jalopnik? Can’t wait to see what’s next for you guys, I’ll be watching closely!

Well, time to remove Jalopnik from my bookmarks. I’m looking forward to what you guys are up to next. And fuck Jim Spanfeller. 

God damn it.

Will there be a Jalop article pointing us to where you two have gone, or do I just have to remember to google your names every few weeks?

Aww, for fucks sake. You are the reasons I come here!!