Anyone, like me, finding the shutters slowly coming down on the on-line Guardian? Having been an avid devoured of their “cpoy” over the years, increasingly via the app, if still reliably purchasing the Saturday one and the Observer. For the last few years I have come to learn how to “yes, later” their pop up pleas to subscribe, now blocked for 10 days, having overshot an arbitrary limit. Not really a complaint, per se, more a wistful observation. Not as if you can read owt else much for free….
Graun: not quite a paywall
by 13 Comments
Devourer not devoured, that was spellcheck. Unlike cpoy, which was a witty play on the old papers tendency to unspellcheck.
I’m not sure. I look at the browser version each morning to see the headlines, though the further down the page it goes, the more trivial it gets. I like that I can close completely sections that don’t interest me (sport).
A couple of years ago I got tired of the yellow banners telling me how many articles I’d read that year that appear every time a new article opened and, as with The Afterword, selected a small monthly payment as thanks for the news it provides.
I don’t get the yellow banners any more, but they do still appear with the Guardian app (which is a better format). I asked why, when I was a regular payer, this was the case. Apparently it’s a different service that you have to pay more for. So I deleted the app.
It may not be perfect, but as I want a new source without a pay wall, it’s probably the best option.
I usually look at on the Readly app these days rather than the website. I believe that it’s the full daily paper.
It seems most libraries include access to PressReader so we can do the same thing for free.
Another vote for the Guardian (and the Independent) on Readly.
Like Sal I peruse the browser version. I find myself spending more time scanning The Conversation tbh. Bite sized articles on a wide range of subjects written by academics in understandable prose.
The Conversation is very good – i love that academics are given a space to lend their own ideas, without being mediated by some journalist who thinks it necessary to pull out the sensational bits and trivialise the rest.
I subscribe to it through Feedly, whose free version isn’t as good now as when I shielded the app, but I’m happy enough with the now fixed news sources not to try something new.
One I managed to add before the doors closed which I’d like to recommend is ‘The Marginalian’ – reflections spanning art, science, poetry, philosophy, and other tendrils of our search for truth, beauty, meaning, and creative vitality.
It may sound a bit dippy and new age, but I sense quite a rigour to its writings.
Delete cache and you reset to zero.
Well, I seem to anyway.
And regularly deleting cache is a good thing.
Why don’t you just pay for it? You save the money on the Observer and have it all week.
Ah oui. Ten Quid a month as a Supporter.. everything including crosswords and that stupid Wordiply nonsense
You can indeed get full access to The Guardian, Independent and other papers and mags (including loads of music mags) through a subscription to Readly. I’ve been with them a while and it’s good value.
https://go.readly.com/discover
The Guardian is still my newspaper of choice, but the print and online version have both decreased in quality over the last few years. I used to buy the print copy several times a week, only to find I was reading articles I’d already read online the day before.
One of the great facets of the online version is the BTL comments, which have, traditionally, provided a panoply of opinions from a variety of political/cultural persuasions. In the last couple of years, however, the editing/deleting of these comments has become ridiculous. Direct insults between posters is widely tolerated, but any hint that the writer of the article might be missing the mark – however respectfully couched it may be – results in comments being deleted. Linked to this is the Guardian’s treatment of Suzanne Moore and Hadley Freeman – two brilliant journalists who had the personality, intelligence and courage to voice an opinion, only to find themselves effectively out of a job.