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Longform was a respected service and I wish them the best focusing on the podcast.

My use of Longform declined as long, intricate articles became something nearly any publication could pull off, but I think that Longform deserves some credit for bringing about that change in journalism.

There are new forms of journalism emerging and new curators will appear to popularize them.

[axiomdata316]

Do you have any recommendations for similar services that aggregate quality long form articles?

[adwi]

https://longreads.com/

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There are so many ways to collect them now, e.g., there are hundreds of twitter accounts that reliably share 'interesting articles' and nearly all are long form anymore.

[spoonjim]

What made nearly any publication able to pull of long, intricate, articles?

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Multiple factors, but I think the biggest are the format becoming more imitable over time, better baseline design tools and CMSes for multi-section content, and automation/semi-automation of short form articles to make room to focus on big hits. There is also some survivorship bias as search engine improvements and changed tastes through sharing have diminished or forced sale of content mills.