As Jezebel’s rise from the dead continues, the time has finally come to say goodbye and good riddance to Kinja forever. Beginning Monday, we’ll still be Jezebel.com, but we’ll be Jezebel.com on a new WordPress platform. Nothing about our content is changing and everything that’s ever existed on the site will continue to exist—including the entire archive, slideshows, and every comment that’s ever been posted—we just have a new look.
We’ll be looking at a redesign in the coming months but, for now, we’re focused on getting off Kinja, getting new commenters out of the greys, and ensuring that you can scroll through an article or click on a slideshow without being assaulted by so many ads that you inevitably give up and X out. Kinja was truly the worst.
While change is inevitable, we agree that it can be scary and annoying. But we’re confident that this new platform will provide you, our brilliant, beloved reader, with a better, smoother reading experience. As Celine Dion once sang, “A New Day Has Come.”
In addition to our new internet home, we’re launching a subscription option for readers. Less than a month after we started publishing again, Google restricted our ad serving sitewide for weeks due to “sexual content”—making it next to impossible for the site to make money. The “sexual content” included hundreds of articles stretching back to 2007, some had “sex,” “crotch,” or “dick” in the headline, sure, but others were more confusing...like this story that included Love Actually in the headline.
So Google’s a prude and in today’s fickle and unstable media environment, “brand safety” still (unfortunately) reigns supreme. But for $8 a month, you’ll be able to comment on any story and be granted access to our entire archive, as well as a bunch of other perks you’ll learn about tomorrow. Most importantly, we’ll be able to keep putting salacious words like Love Actually in our headlines.
And since the need for a place like Jezebel has never been more necessary or more urgent, this is a reminder that we remain as committed as ever to championing diverse voices and fostering a space dedicated to standard-setting journalism that challenges, exposes, and calls bullshit on the powers that be. As well as all the humor, sex, celebrity hot takes, and annual scary story contests you still won’t find anywhere else. Now on a WordPress platform.
As always, thanks for being here with us on this new journey. We hope you enjoy the new home, we hope you subscribe, and we hope to see you (ungreyed!!!!) in the comments section.