Techrights Was Always a Community Site
Half a year from now Techrights turns 20. At the beginning it had two editors, Shane and I. Over time we added more and more (cautiously and conservatively) and the people in the comments participated too (sometimes over E-mail). In 2008 we added IRC presence (before any social control media even mattered). That augmented our ability to collaborate and hosting was done by our community for many years. It became ever more crucial when DOoS attacks became a big problem and shared hosting was no longer an option. It was about shared missions, not money. It was about collaboration, not ownership. I just happen to be the "public face" of the site.
Our goal of boycotting Novell did bear fruit (it only took a few years) and then we explored a number of high-priority activism/journalism endeavours (if opinionated journalism means "activism", then so be it!).
As our impact grew (many character assassination attempts against us fell flat on their face; we lost count of how many dedicated anti-Techrights Web sites were created and eventually perished) so did the pushback. In 2021 this pushback was escalated further. It was so baseless and pathetic that it merely signalled the site's growing importance and it would embolden us to publish at a higher volume/frequency.
Our Daily Links are collaborative work. We issue News Roundups at least twice per day. Recently, as attacks on us intensified even further we got more people in the community involved. The harder we're attacked, the more people participate in the site. That's not so unusual a pattern. █
Image source: Mr. George Psalmanazar