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Is The Local committing suicide?

Now charging 500kr per year

Uncle Fred
post 23.Nov.2017, 07:10 PM
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QUOTE (Gamla H?lsingebock @ 23.Nov.2017, 06:10 PM) *
TheLocal has a unique niche audience...


You can say that again.
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Gamla Hälsingebock
post 23.Nov.2017, 07:15 PM
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Joined: 21.Dec.2006

TheLocal has a unique niche audience... laugh.gif

We will wait and see how it goes...
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browngirl
post 27.Nov.2017, 04:09 PM
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Joined: 5.Oct.2016

I just got a message when I opened an article asking me to be a member to read the article. 500kr/year? 10kr for 1st month and 50 for the rest of the year?

So, I went to aftonbladet.se, dn.se svt.se and then right clicked > Translate to English! More substantial news and read the same content for free.

Then I went to this thread. If not for this community, I will not even be accessing this website. I am just so bored on a Monday afternoon. tongue.gif
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intrepidfox
post 27.Nov.2017, 09:24 PM
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Location: Gothenburg
Joined: 18.Jul.2012

QUOTE (Gamla H?lsingebock @ 23.Nov.2017, 07:15 PM) *
TheLocal has a unique niche audience... laugh.gif . We will wait and see how it goes...


The Local has been dead for years. The news site is not news, just a lot of rubbish which is not even readable or interesting.

The only thing left is this page but for how much longer? Probably not much longer as there are no discussions any more, just help me help me
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Gamla Hälsingebock
post 27.Nov.2017, 09:33 PM
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Joined: 21.Dec.2006

TheLocal is Sweden's Google...

I have noticed less TheLocal articles on Google News and when you try to read them you only get a little ways in before you are asked to join...for a fee...

What do you think would happen if the Forum was also a pay site???
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Mib
post 27.Nov.2017, 11:44 PM
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Joined: 7.Jul.2006

The forum was much more active years ago and has slowly declined. I guess the same questions/answers are repeated, so some of the longer term forum users aren't as frequent as before. If they made it a pay forum, it would die on its knees quickly. Most forums are free and the ones that aren't are related to information that gives real business advice or how to make money etc.

For me the forum was the biggest reason to go the local when I came to Sweden. Strange that they don't seem to have replicated that on other local websites, although I haven't looked for a while.
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Gamla Hälsingebock
post 28.Nov.2017, 01:55 AM
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Joined: 21.Dec.2006

Google News...Now:...TheLocal 4 out of 20 stories...Bloomberg 3, Quartz 2...

Quite a difference...
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somethingbrite
post 11.Jul.2020, 03:14 AM
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Joined: 8.Mar.2010

Gonna necro this old post because...

You can get a years subscription to The Washington Post for less than $20
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Grommet
post 30.Jul.2020, 03:02 PM
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Joined: 10.May.2020

Not to mention that you can have all TL "quality" content free, with any half-assed adblocker.

Not sure why anyone would want to though.
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Gimp
post 30.Jul.2020, 03:20 PM
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Location: Pakistan
Joined: 27.Jan.2020

QUOTE (Grommet @ 30.Jul.2020, 03:02 PM) *
Not sure why anyone would want to though.


You obviously did! Lol
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