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In reply to the discussion: Snopes.com in Danger of Shuttering [View all]politicat
(9,808 posts)48. Part of the problem is sheer scope.
They started in 1994, with a hand-coded, HTML 2 site. (one of the ways I learned HTML was by going to their site and reading the "View Source" version of the page. I am an old.) They've been near 100% uptime ever since. They've got a lot of antique, legacy code still haunting the place, and they didn't have any sort of content management system. They're running a million hits a day, at least.
I can see why someone who isn't primarily a coder would partner with an ad-serve and CMS service. They would have been better off hiring their own web developer, but they may not have had the income for that.
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Yes it is, and there are accusations that the host server controls the webpage
Brother Buzz
Jul 2017
#9
What a mess of a situation. Whatever is true and not true, I hope they can figure it all out.
xor
Jul 2017
#54
Need some reliable 3rd party verification/investigation of what is actually happening here. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jul 2017
#18
Same. I know the RWers dismiss Snopes as another "liberal media' outlet,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Jul 2017
#23
Doesn't sound good for Snopes. I guess right wingers are wrong that George Soros owns Snopes.
Hoyt
Jul 2017
#26
They rant about Soros and could care less than the Koch's donate 15 times more than him
MrPurple
Jul 2017
#52
It seems like something that Zuckerberg would buy with the change in his couch. n/t
DefenseLawyer
Jul 2017
#27
My web host also offers domain name registration; my domain name registrar also offers hosting
rocktivity
Jul 2017
#40
This happened because the site was owned 50-50 between the husband and wife partners and...
PoliticAverse
Jul 2017
#45
The problem isn't that they hired someone to manage the content. The problem is that after....
PoliticAverse
Jul 2017
#49
Yes, but the decision to go with the CMS/Ad seems to have been in the middle of that.
politicat
Jul 2017
#50