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Rumor says American Media inc. may be done. Would that impact the monkey?
Fingers crossed that answer is no.
Rumor says American Media inc. may be done. Would that impact the monkey?
Fingers crossed that answer is no.
Are we toast?
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Does this mean David Pecker got indicted?
No idea at the moment. Overall, it's somewhat unlikely that the monkey just goes kaput; there's a decent amount of traffic here, so it's an asset with value, and is much more likely to be transferred somewhere rather than just killed off.
Honestly, though, I get very little insight into this stuff.
Honestly, though, I get very little insight into this stuff.
someone set up a mirror site before they kill us
well bike mag is shutting down, so i guess we're up on the auction block.
www.pinkbike.com
Bike, Surfer, Powder, & Snowboarder Magazines Shut Down - Pinkbike
Best of luck to all the employees who have been furloughed.
I'm sure the magazine is permanently kaput, but from what I've read the employees are being furloughed. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to continue the digital side.well bike mag is shutting down, so i guess we're up on the auction block.
Bike, Surfer, Powder, & Snowboarder Magazines Shut Down - Pinkbike
Best of luck to all the employees who have been furloughed.
here's to hoping. while i didn't subscribe, from what i heard the content was still good. i must admit that i do sometimes click/read the bikemag articles via RM.
They are still posting on Facebook today like nothing happened.
This is a good article by the editor who helped launch Bike. Everyone's been furloughed including digital, except at the snow titles.
www.adventure-journal.com
Bike, Powder, Snowboarder, and Surfer Magazines Shut Down
Owner American Media pulls the plug less than two years after buying the titles
www.adventure-journal.com
Sad day.
and maybe consider greenlisting this site for the greater good?
I don't know what that means
if you use an adblocker, allow ads on this site. I just did, and they're honestly not very intrusive.
Turned off adblocker.
Would really suck if this site went away. There are a bunch of monkeys on here that I hope to meet one day.
Would really suck if this site went away. There are a bunch of monkeys on here that I hope to meet one day.
life without the Monkey? it's reading the posts you idiots write that keep me going at times. laughter has always been my medicine.
i turned mine off.
maybe we should begin a kickstarter, just in case we need to buy the monkey. MONKEY RUN BY MONKEYS
Fun fact: I tried to buy the Monkey twice. Once I couldn't get together enough cash (I was young, this was when Adam was trying to unload the site), and again after one of the corporate disasters with that horrible content management system and they wanted a ludicrous amount of money for it.
i think we could scrape together enough pesos this time around
Group buy the monkey!
After being on here for the past 16 years, it would be a big blow to lose this community.
i think @binary visions should be secretly copying the backend database, etc. you know, for contingency planning.
alos, @Pesqueeb's avatar seems disturbingly relevant right now
When AMI took over the site, I was locked out of all direct server/database access, unfortunately. I'm poking around with my various contacts to see what's up and what's possible.
have you tried it now?
If we do a monkey buy in of the monkey, can we get a monkey while we are at it?
Is the monkey allowed to post here? And if so, how would we tell the difference between the monkey and pinkshirtphotos?
How much would "ridemonkey.com" even be worth? I mean it gets redirected to ridemonkey.bike.com, so I'm guessing its mostly just the regulars and the odd legacy link floating around on the interwebs somewhere.
I wonder how big the database is? I'm guessing majority of it is from the media being posted.
I wonder how big the database is? I'm guessing majority of it is from the media being posted.
It's likely that they would only divest the whole site as a package, and its value would be tied to the amount of traffic the site as a whole gets.
The database isn't too large, the media is much larger. But all of that stuff is locked up in their servers now, so you need their cooperation to transition; I can't just rip out a backup and set it up at www.ridemonkey2.com or something.
nuke it from orbit and start from scratch. we'll control our own destiny! try it now monkey dot com
the technical discussions have so much value. I was just reading about how to tune a roco from 2008. I'd be in for a kickstarter.
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