Goodbye from Salon
- ID
- 43624
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 06 Nov 2026, 4:03 AM
- Fetched
- 06 Nov 2026, 7:33 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://www.salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-from-salon/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 2.0
- Created
- 06 Nov 2026, 7:34 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersfounders
What happened
Salon published a post titled "Goodbye from Salon" dated 2026-11-05, which reads as a farewell/closure notice for the publication, and it drew 311 points and 105 comments on Hacker News. However, the extracted article text is almost entirely site navigation, subscribe prompts, and category links — the body of the announcement (shutdown date, archive handling, staff, or business reasons) is not present in the source text provided.
Why it matters
There is no concrete decision for this audience in the text supplied: no tooling change, no pricing or API change, no policy shift, and no Malaysian or SEA angle. The only usable signal is the discussion volume (311 points, 105 comments), which indicates developers care about a long-running publication closing — but the excerpt gives you nothing to act on, so don't spend meeting time on it beyond a one-line mention unless someone has read the actual post.
Discussion angle
The farewell post body wasn't captured in the source text — is anyone in the group a Salon reader who can say what the announcement actually commits to (archive availability, subscription wind-down), and does that change whether you'd cite or link to it going forward?