DailyEdge.ie is gone.

Autecher

The Daily Edge was one of the worst websites I've ever been on. Just terrible stuff. It seemed to be staffed exclusively by perma-offended woke young wans with a very large man sized chip on their shoulder. Good riddance to it.

is_that_so

Never been on it until now but looks like an online tabloid magazine to me.

GBX

is_that_so wrote: »

Never been on it until now but looks like an online tabloid magazine to me.

Thats all it was. No loss.

Not a moment too soon, mediocre style of journalism taking pride in sifting through the garbage that is celebrity culture.

Ursus Horribilis

Let's hope Joe.ie is next

smilerf

I hope Metro dies too.
Its awful ****e

Cina

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Jamie2k9

Hopefully Journal will follow, gone downhill massively...

GBX

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

I havent gone onto it in a long time. Im sure those employed there will be suitably looked after internally in the Journal or given redundancy payment if the case may be. They wont be just thrown on the scrap heap with nothing.

Cina

GBX wrote: »

I havent gone onto it in a long time. Im sure those employed there will be suitably looked after internally in the Journal or given redundancy payment if the case may be. They wont be just thrown on the scrap heap with nothing.

Maybe they will but we don't know that. Either way it will probably lead to job losses. It's a bit odd to celebrate something like this, imo.

GBX

Cina wrote: »

Maybe they will but we don't know that. Either way it will probably lead to job losses. It's a bit odd to celebrate something like this, imo.

Exactly! - we don't know anything including whether it will lead to job losses.
Yes, its never good if somebody loses a job, so until that's confirmed I'll stand by what I said about being glad to seeing it gone. What's to say they don't come out as some other entity ?
Also I am far from celebrating - but I am entitled to not liking something like the content/journalism style of the Daily Edge.

Diceicle

Joe.ie seems to be dipping its toes in the woke-water lately.
Get woke go broke, as they say.

Diceicle

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Nah, its no loss; besides they can just learn to code.

EmmetSpiceland

Never spent too much time on it but it was decent for getting the “what’s on tonight” TV list.

Can’t really understand the joyous celebrations. I mean, I don’t read the Daily Mail entertainment page like some of the girls here but I couldn’t give two hoots if it went offline. Very strange.

Church on Tuesday

OSI wrote: »

Most of the DailyEdge guff was done by unpaid interns.

Is that the word? I wouldn't be surprised to be honest.

Let's be honest here, it was pretty ****e and some of the stuff on it was frankly embarrassing.

its run by the journal, so they would be writers who come off as being offended college students with no life experience other than twitter and social media, and trying to pass a couple of comments by randomers on twtter as news or the internet is outraged/in love etc with a show as "journalism"

Maurice Yeltsin

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Good. It'll motivate them to get a job with a real media outlet.

Can you imagine how much these new media sites pay their staff? It's no wonder Leo Sherlock has to effectively hire himself and his half a dozen split personalities, I doubt the clown is clearing minimum wage for himself never mind a staff.

Diceicle

Diceicle wrote: »

Joe.ie seems to be dipping its toes in the woke-water lately.
Get woke go broke, as they say.

despite the relentless articles on McGregor and the most irish type articles , they've been like that for a while, throwing in politics, gender bashing or preachy sanctimounius written articles from a pissy third wave feminist (if I remember a writer at the time, a while back tried to be noble bragging how he took the long way home so a woman who was a head of him wouldn't feel nervous or uncomfortable) or stuff like on the kardashians (should be on her.ie really)...only thing good was they had a weekly/daily song of the day type of articles which tbf introduced decent off the radar bands

silverharp

#learntocode :pac:

Rjd2

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Never spent too much time on it but it was decent for getting the “what’s on tonight” TV list.

Can’t really understand the joyous celebrations. I mean, I don’t read the Daily Mail entertainment page like some of the girls here but I couldn’t give two hoots if it went offline. Very strange.

The site is muck, but I knew what to expect when I get on it and it never hid that. In the grand scheme of things it was relatively harmless tbh.

L1011

smilerf wrote: »

I hope Metro dies too.
Its awful ****e

The newspaper that closed down about 5 years ago?

Collie D

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Indeed. I know that The Daily Edge was a celebrity gossip site so I must have been on it at some point to know that but it’s easily avoided.

“Celebrity” culture is completely boring to me but so too is the rush to be hip and slag it off or even celebrate the closing of a website which had no major impact on anyone’s life for good or bad and could easily be avoided.

Same goes for any business closing.

Church on Tuesday

Brixton Chilly Protein wrote: »

despite the relentless articles on McGregor and the most irish type articles , they've been like that for a while, throwing in politics, gender bashing or preachy sanctimounius written articles from a pissy third wave feminist (if I remember a writer at the time, a while back tried to be noble bragging how he took the long way home so a woman who was a head of him wouldn't feel nervous or uncomfortable) or stuff like on the kardashians (should be on her.ie really)...only thing good was they had a weekly/daily song of the day type of articles which tbf introduced decent off the radar bands

Good God that's hilarious and pathetic in equal measure!

Church on Tuesday

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Good God that's hilarious and pathetic in equal measure!

fairly positive it was Joe.ie, this was years back(wouldn't surprise me if it was the journal) and it just raised groans ….but looking at the fb page, is really a page which is supposed to be humour aimed at males, when it has nonsense about kardashains and Kanye west, lidl chocolates and also having about 10 articles today about Game of Thrones (McGregor has been replaced)

Church on Tuesday

Brixton Chilly Protein wrote: »

fairly positive it was Joe.ie, this was years back(wouldn't surprise me if it was the journal) and it just raised groans ….but looking at the fb page, is really a page which is supposed to be humour aimed at males, when it has nonsense about kardashains and Kanye west, lidl chocolates and also having about 10 articles today about Game of Thrones (McGregor has been replaced)

The hard hitting issues of the day

Yer Da sells Avon

My favourite thing about it was the comments from overly serious lads underneath articles about... oh, I dunno... crisps or something, moaning that there was more serious stuff happening in the world.

Harmless site. Don't know why anyone would be arsed celebrating its demise.

smilerf

L1011 wrote: »

The newspaper that closed down about 5 years ago?

nah the English site it's so bad

L1011

smilerf wrote: »

nah the English site it's so bad

Only 'newspaper' (they do tens of different local print versions) with a constantly growing circulation, unlikely to go anywhere.

Dublin version died as they didn't have the scale to survive.

Assetbacked

Quite clear what happens when vacuous, self-absorbed females mix their opinions with a business that needs the general public to care about them in order to survive.

Yer Da sells Avon

Assetbacked wrote: »

Quite clear what happens when vacuous, self-absorbed females mix their opinions with a business that needs the general public to care about them in order to survive.

Females.

lertsnim

So man hating rabid feminist click baiting crap didn't make money? I'm not surprised to see that it was staffed by unpaid interns.

hatrickpatrick

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Personally I enjoyed it and I'll miss some of its content, but I can see why people might celebrate the demise of a particular online media source - whether we like it or not, they command a ridiculous level of influence over culture in general. If the Huffington Post, Vice, and Buzzfeed had never been created, it's likely enough that all the PC culture / identity politics garbage would never have entered mainstream cultural consciousness, these three outlets used clickbait tactics to push that agenda hard from 2013 onwards. The media has a lot of influence on wider society, and media which choose to use this influence to actively attempt to affect social change as opposed to mere passive reporting of it are highly unethical.

Regarding the Daily Edge specifically, I'm opposed to SJW bullsh!t as much as anyone, but was Daily Edge known for it? I thought it was more of a student-esque cultural thing like Lovin Dublin rather than an opinionated space for social issues?

EDIT: Ok, just looked over it and I can see where people are coming from, but unless my memory is faulty here it wasn't always like this - I distinctly remember a time when it was centred around socialising and general craic, so talking about festivals, clubs, cultural memes and things like photos of crowds having cans outside The Barge in the summer. Am I confusing it with another subsidiary of The Journal?

For Forks Sake

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Hopefully Journal will follow, gone downhill massively...

Downhill? Journal started at the bottom of the barrel and kept digging.

NIMAN

If DE and Joe.ie go, whats Matt Coopers Last Word going to do for specialist knowledge?

NIMAN

NIMAN wrote: »

If DE and Joe.ie go, whats Matt Coopers Last Word going to do for specialist knowledge?

More roe mc Dermott and Jennifer Gannon and current presenters stepping in on various topics like ferg Darcy on brexit

Richard Hillman

The Daily Edge is gone... And you'll never guess why?

The Highwayman

Cina wrote: »

It's a bit weird to see people celebrating something like this. Ultimately if it's gone that means people lost their jobs, and it's just a tabloid website, you don't have to go on and read it if you don't want to.

Learn to code.

Maurice Yeltsin

The Toad wrote: »

The government needs to introduce free coding classes for the massive layoffs that are coming in the media sector.

The most ironic learn to code I saw used was by Gemma O'Doherty.

Y'know, given it's a meme aimed at sacked journalists who won't ever get another well paid gig :pac: