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• Why strand.spreen.co is Now Offline
  Thursday, June 20, 2024

  Thank you for navigating to strand.spreen.co I appreciate everyone who got some use out of this archive for the short time it existed. The TL;DR of this post is that the NYT sent me a copyright notice that I will comply with. The website is now shut down. Keep on reading for a bit of a backstory, drama, and some lessons. I want to take a moment to discuss three things: the developments that I suspect has lead to the NYT shutting this site down, what you might be able to learn from it, and what’s next. Copy Cats Only a week after I finished this passion project and made it free for everyone on the internet to use and play, I realized that at least three domains were popping up on Google. All being called something along the lines of new-york-times-strands-archive.to I was not affiliated wit