![]() The Times, with the help of its audience development team, now looks more to third-party platforms like Facebook and Twitter to expand its reach among younger readers. Kinsey Wilson, the executive vice president for product and technology, said the decision to do away with NYT Now was driven in part by a shift in how the company thinks about broadening its audience. Unfortunately, "the app never quite took off," and NYT Now transitioned to a freemium model last year in an attempt to expand its audience. The goal was to present a less expensive subscription model, with news focused and curated for each specific user, and attract people who might not otherwise subscribe due to the ease-of-access inherent in mobile apps. NYT Now was said to be an attempt by the New York Times to offset dips in revenue from its traditional printed newspaper circulation. ![]() The app was originally announced in early 2014 as a way to provide readers with a cheaper alternative to the digital subscription service offered by the company, coming in at $8 per month, "roughly half the price of the least expensive digital subscription." Instead of ditching third-party apps completely, NYT should be the leaders in this space by switching to one of those other formats.The New York Times has announced that its curated news app, NYT Now, will officially shut down and no longer be available to download from the week of August 29. They're not as well-supported by as many third-party apps as. I haven't worked with these as extensively so can't speak much from experience, but I do know they're far superior to AcrossLite's. Now granted, most of these features are pure gimmick (except for Unicode support, I mean c'mon) and it hasn't been a huge loss not to have them for decades, but they do limit what the constructors and editors are able to achieve.Īre there better puzzle formats out there? YES! There are two other significantly better file formats out there that I'm aware of. have the solver draw a picture at the end It doesn't support having a 'connect-the-dots' solution that some puzzles use to e.g. ![]() It doesn't support having any kind of images in the grid It doesn't support diagonal clues/entries or other metapuzzle-like elements, aside from writing some words in the notepad. puz file they either get replaced by circles, or a message in the notepad shaded cells or other modifications in the print version that don't translate into the. It supports having circles in certain cells in the grid, but that's it for special formatting/embellishments. down entries, or some kind of rebus where it's not totally clear exactly which letters you need to type in for the app to consider it correct. rebus squares with different letters used for the across vs. It doesn't allow you to put certain punctuation in a cell, and a cell can only have one possible solution to it that's considered correct. It supports rebuses (multiple letters in a square) but only in a very limited way. This precludes certain types of gimmick puzzles. If there are two or more white cells in a row, there MUST be a clue number in the first, and no clue numbers allowed anywhere else. It doesn't support any kinds of non-standard clue numbering. It only supports the Windows-1252 character set (no full Unicode support), so constructors can't put a lot of foreign words in their puzzles (hi there, Slashdot!) It REALLY IS a terrible file format, and I understand why the NYT wants to ditch it: I've developed a crossword puzzle app that parses AcrossLite.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |