[dheera]

E-commerce, possibly, but less true for journalism. Nobody browses news site front pages anymore. They visit news article links directly from their Facebook feed of other people sharing/liking stuff, Reddit, HN, or other social media.

When was the last time you typed in nytimes.com or some similar foo into a browser?

[incongruity]

Well, since you’re asking - Daily - news sites’ front pages are bookmarked on my mobile but often typed as well.

[cm2187]

For me the exact opposite. When did I last even go on facebook? Probably over 10 months ago.

[tiborsaas]

I do that regularly with local news websites. Convenient to go though stuff I might have missed.

[Slartie]

A long time ago, because I've got bookmarks for 5 or 6 news sites that I regularly visit (usually daily). And of course those bookmarks go to the front pages.

Facebook for news...seriously? Even HN, though I sometimes follow links to news sites, is primarily of interest for me as a source of links to obscure blog posts and similar non-news stuff. The news links are usually colored as "already visited" for me. Nevertheless, quite often the comments to these news articles are still worth reading. Which stands in stark contrast to Facebook comments on news articles...

[molmalo]

Daily.

Also, I don't use Facebook. Most of the people I know navigate to the news site directly, as social media is just an echo chamber, there are lots of links to obscure news sites publishing fake news, etc.

[qu4z-2]

I literally typed nytimes.com into my browser moments ago, right after typing in news.ycombinator.com.

Granted, I'm sure I'm an outlier but it was an entertaining coincidence, especially as I don't typically read the NY Times.

[lithos]

It has been a long while since we've had usable news sites.

There are so many mixed in signals when it comes to the "decline of news" that it's hard to pinpoint causes or use it in arguments.

[StreamBright]

Nobody? What about 1B Chinese?