I love all the great open source software they've supported.

https://d3js.org/

https://www.quora.com/What-JavaScript-library-does-the-New-Y...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_...

https://svelte.technology/

https://rollupjs.org/guide/en

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247571

um304 6 months ago [-]

NYT has a history of hiring engineering rockstars. I believe creators of libraries like BackboneJS, UnderscoreJS, and D3 were at NYT when they had invented those amazing pieces of work.

danso 6 months ago [-]

I think Bostock had already created D3 by the time the NYT hired him: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3k3if4/hi_....

rich_harris 6 months ago [-]

In fact, the creator of Backbone and Underscore — Jeremy Ashkenas — worked on this article until he left the NYT last year (to join the creator of D3, Mike Bostock, at https://observablehq.com)

I pay to support their journalism.

The amount that I consume is probably less than what requires a subscription, but I started paying because I can afford it, and I feel like it’s important for them to have resources to do what they do.

To pay for a service that they get? To support their journalism?

Convenience and consistent access to a high quality experience. It's been shown time and again to work.

At a certain age it's reasonable to consider one's time to have a non-zero value.

It's what leads people to pay $10 a month to stream music, and even access movies, despite means which infringe on copyright being generally "free," easy, and also trivially accessed.

I used to do that then one day I read that there were layoffs to cut costs, I subscribed that very day. If you can afford to pay and you consume the service then $9 per month is not a lot.

If nobody pays for it then pretty soon it won't be available at any cost to anyone.

I like their app - especially that I can just do a refresh and then offline view, which makes plane trips when I don't want to pay for wifi much more pleasant. They're also relatively sparse with their breaking news push notifications, so for the most part I don't feel like I need to "worry check" other news sites - if its of decent importance I'll get a push.

Because I want it to be around in two years.

Because it's well written and a good source of news that I've long been happy to support.

Some people are ethical.

Because they want to suppport the creation of high quality journalism?

Or because getting around the paywall is not trivial for everyone.

Or because of the other benefits that subscribers get that others do not.

Or because, for some, using a credit card is easier than some technical option.

Not as trivially-bypassed on mobile, I presume.

There's a few companies -- NYT, The Economist, WashPo -- that I pay for, and then spend time bypassing their paywalls, because their implementations are so irritating.

Old people that use the internet.