Our Web Site Has Been Well Since I Quit My Job
We've also managed to publish 10-20 new pages per day (consistently)
THIRTEEN years ago (February 2011) I joined Sirius and I mostly worked overnight in that job, albeit I started by covering weekends only. My sleep wasn't good since I started doing overnight shifts (around 2012), and that impacted my ability to focus or concentrate in the hours of daytime. That ended in 2022 when I was 40 and decided to finally quit, as did my wife (who had worked in the same company).
Our life has improved, we find more time to run our sites, and we're going on holiday soon. Looking back at about 25 years or work, I am proud of (and genuinely happy with) what I learned and accomplished. My jobs were all ethical (that typically means being paid a lot less). Now we are receiving financial support from readers of Techrights, so we can carry on going for decades to come (although decades are a rather ambitious projection).
In terms of traffic, it has gone up sharply, especially this past month. We consistently serve over a million requests per day, sometimes close to 2 million, and we've been receiving plenty of positive feedback lately, mostly by E-mail. Thanks for all the encouraging words!
As one can expect, attempts to suppress or censor us grew as well. Worry not, we know our rights, and we're not going to 'soften'. UK press freedom is waning (notice how much they're delaying the Julian Assange verdict!), but we're receiving clearances and go-aheads from the authorities. Some stuff we write may seem "controversial", but nothing is "illegal" or "unethical". We tend to expose ethical breaches, not to commit ethical breaches. Always remember that in a civil society exposing crime is not itself a crime. █