Nilay Patel, writing at The Verge:
"The Verge is 13 years old now, which feels remarkable to say — we’ve outlasted a lot of our peers, and we’ve mostly done it because we’re stubborn as hell. We’ve never chased metrics, we’ve never taken money to say what other people want us to say, and we’ve never shied away from caring deeply about technology and how it makes people feel. Launching a subscription is a big change, but it’s the foundation of how we’ll stubbornly make it another 13 years.
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I've been reading The Verge since the beginning (well, before the beginning, I guess: I followed them from Engadget to This is My Next and ultimately to The Verge), so I subscribed. I think full-text RSS feeds as a subscriber benefit are a great idea, and getting fewer ads is always nice (although I have to say that for $50/year, I'd prefer ad-free). Anyway, if you're looking for something to spend the subscription money you saved by canceling The Washington Post, I can happily recommend The Verge.
Here we go: The Verge now has a subscription
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