Salon going bust

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Anyone care?

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Discuss ultimate necessity of e-zines as well as perception of same as 'poor relation' to print

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gosh, is this true? If so, it's a shame. (Not that I looked at Salon much in the last year.) I guess it had been coming for a while with all the Salon Premium business. But in its time I think it was the best online culture mag - it certainly employed some of my favourite writers (Marcus, Steve Erickson, Jonathan Lethem, David Thomson). I'm kind of baffled why no one can sustain this kind of enterprise... people are prepared to pay for all kinds of services (and send txtmsgs at 20p a time) from their mobile phones, (and pay real money for rubbishy newspapers) but not to pay to read articles online. Of course you can get so much content for nada from weblogs, e-zines, forums etc - but I don't think you can beat a properly commissioned and edited magazine (which actually pays its writers). Hmm.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd love David Thomson to start posting on ILE.

― Terry Shannon, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is there a new development of sorts?

dotcomscoop ran a pretty good overview of why salon's having so many troubles selling premium subscriptions.

― maura, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

onlyr eason i ever liked salon was for its comics and its survivor updates...they stayed free, and so i occasionally drop in...but i anin't gonna pay to read ads, and more crap from middle aged white men...

― goeff, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

While I wish David Horowitz and Camille Paglia a merry time in hell, and was never much impressed with Sarah Vowell, the loss of their writing on Salon should've been a warning sign to me that the site was suffering slow death. Looks like all their graphic designers have jumped ship, too -- recent artwork has been shockingly mediocre. That pic of Reagan morphing into Bush? Crimony! Even *I* could better than that!

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But it's not Sarah Vowell's writing I'm in love with, it's her squeaky hitchy voice. And her stories of marching band.

― Pyth, Friday, 8 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nine months pass...

Their Mark Fiore "flash cartoonist" is absolutely apalling. Worse than "Brent-physical satirist".

But anyway, they appear to be still going.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 25 November 2002 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark Fiore's everywhere - blaming Salon for him is like giving them credit for Ruben Bolling or blaming/crediting them for Tom Tomorrow.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this was going to be about Salon turning into a porn site.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 25 November 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Well NASDAQ just kicked them out, so it seems their survival is still precarious. Most of their arts-related stuff is vitally important to my life (except their music stuff (except Marcus)). Their news isn't much use to me.

― B.Rad (Brad), Monday, 25 November 2002 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought NASDAQ dropped them a while back. Anyhow, I'll miss it but not half as much as I miss Feed or Suck.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 06:25 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.lights.com/waterways/arch/figure35.gif

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i thought this was going to be about the channel four ladyboy-staffed reality hairdressers.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

More places of business should be staffed by ladyboys.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Seattle Weekly music section is not enough.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

bump

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 November 2026 19:58 (four days ago)

https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 November 2026 19:58 (four days ago)

Post by N. from Bust going Salon on ILX - Bust going Salon

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:00 (four days ago)

RIP!

― jaymc, Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:04 (four days ago)

apparently some crypto bro VCs bought Salon in 2023

https://bsky.app/profile/whitneycwimbish.bsky.social/post/3mzlnjgubwc2e

― Bob Karol G (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:10 (four days ago)

The first message board I ever posted on was Salon's Table Talk, in late '98 or early '99.

― jaymc, Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:15 (four days ago)

they gave us glenn greenwald

― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:16 (four days ago)

The first message board I ever posted on was Salon's Table Talk, in late '98 or early '99.

Me, too, probably around the same time.

― wipes chooser (unperson), Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:30 (four days ago)

first website I ever read every day

― symsymsym, Thursday, 5 November 2026 20:55 (four days ago)

same! salon.com and, er, Mr Showbiz

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 5 November 2026 21:14 (four days ago)

circa 2002 I opened it up one morning and there was an illustration at the top of an article where an ex girlfriend had posed for the artist, clearly. Really weird. Very much in character for her to have the connection, tho' I hadn't been in communication since the web got going.

Also, I made a playlist of mp3s from band sites, some sort of contest, and it was chosen, as was a playlist from another college dj I knew. Mostly electro-clashy-synthy-indie-sleaze, mostly the North Carolina bands doing that thing.

― semicolon pilcrow comma umlaut hyphen tower (bendy), Thursday, 5 November 2026 21:29 (four days ago)

sad lol at magnitude of bump gap

― Truly Fine Citizen of the Galaxy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 November 2026 21:56 (four days ago)

first website I ever read every day

― symsymsym, Thursday, November 5, 2026 3:55 PM

― stopping by billy woods on a snowy evening (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 November 2026 22:06 (four days ago)

I guess Digby was writing there up to the end.

― The Deer-Smellers of Haunted Mountain (President Keyes), Friday, 6 November 2026 00:05 (three days ago)

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