Feed and Suck close down

Feed and Suck, two of the oldest running editorial sites on the Web, closed down today. Certain sites I believed would survive this "wintry economic climate". Feed and Suck were two of them. What's next? Salon? Slashdot? What'll be left?

Maybe it's because I rarely went there

I never really got suck. I mean I went there maybe 3 times in the last 2 years and read the headline article but that was about it. In fact I don't even know if there was more than just the main suck headliner each day. Was there? As such I pretty much always expected it to die or I thought it must be run as a "labor of love" and not for profit especially since each article had so much custom artwork.

I've never been to feed either. Is it really that popular? I get most of my news from msnbc.com. Otherwise I might happen to see news when I go to yahoo to search for something.

I do go to Salon. I think (hope) they will make it but I wouldn't be surprised if they died. Is it popular enough? I have no idea.

Slashdot I can see losing its funding from VA if VA goes under but I suspect the guys running it will just move it or start something else. Clearly people read it.

Just my 2 cents.

Me too...

I didn't visit those sites nearly as much as Salon, but my impression was that they were quite popular and had a strong following, judging by the links to them in other sites/weblogs. Plus the sites were less straight-up news, which I don't read much of, and more commentary/editorial (especially Suck). I guess in some ways weblogs have supplanted Suck's role.

I visit Salon a lot and this article sheds some light on its situation.

What the hell do they need 85 people for?

I'll admit I know next to nothing about the online magazine business but 85 people to run Salon (down half from a year ago)? Seems like about 20 would do. 10 - 12 content people and a few others but what do I know.

I shared on office with Mac Artist ones. They put out a magazine with 3 people.

85 people has got to be a burn rate of at least $300K a month and probably more like $500k or more. What are they thinking?