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Djordje Vlaisavljevic

Nov 6, 2024 — 1 min read

I’ve been writing and creating for so long, it’s hard to stop. There’s an archive of tens of thousands of interesting, insightful articles here, dating back as far as 2008. I’d hate for them to vanish, but the truth is that with no way to bring readers to read any of them, at some point I’ll probably have to stop wasting money on hosting costs.

For the most part, though, we’re ceasing operations. Not because we want to, but because there’s no longer any point in continuing to produce content if people can’t find it.

GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT has been publishing geeky content on science and entertainment for more than 16 years. It was a good run. Now it’s over. If we’re lucky, maybe at some point we’ll get to start back up again.

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