@dangillmor For me the annoying thing was that I was signed up for emails from The Athletic — automatically, I think, as I don’t remember doing this. This resulted in a stream of emails with links to articles that I couldn’t read. It felt like an upsell. Of course I turned that off. Still annoying is the continual upsell for sports, cooking, games etc. Upsell, upsell, upsell.

@dangillmor And the mini-crossword, and most of its games/puzzles, ...

One of my daughters worked as an app developer for The Athletic pre-NYT ownership. Once it was acquired, she started looking elsewhere for employment and quickly found it. She was lucky to have such easily transferrable skills. A lesson for us all.

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Not only do I not subscribe to the Nazi sympathizing NYT, but I have them flagged in Kagi to place their articles at the bottom of any search results.

@dangillmor I would pay extra to NOT see sports news, as Apple tries to ram down our throats.

@dangillmor I don't read sport news, but #nyt also put the wordlebot behind the pay-extra-wall. Now, that's annoying.

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Second question:

If you're working at the New York Times, how does it make you feel that make people pay extra to read sports news?

@dangillmor That they nuked their sports desk a couple years ago was one of the reason I dropped my subscription last year. I didn't care that they were publishing the overwritten pieces from the Athletic. I just wanted a GD Yankees beat writer rather than the AP wire feed.