Parts of the Forbes site remain down

Arik Hesseldahl of Re/code writes about the Forbes website hacking and how it is affecting some of its writers.

Hesseldahl writes, “Meanwhile, Forbes’ blogging site remains offline as of this afternoon. Typically, contributors have free rein to publish their own posts via Forbes’ WordPress installation. I’ve talked with a handful of people who are regular contributors, and they tell me that, instead, they’ve been emailing their posts in to an editor who is publishing posts manually, which is significantly slowing down their ability to publish.

“‘Bloody awful. I have to email posts. No comments. Complete nightmare,’ one contributor told me in a direct message on Twitter. ‘This is really making me mad,’ wrote another in a Facebook message.

“Why this matters is that Forbes relies heavily on its network of 1,200 contributors to basically give it free content — a few attract enough traffic to make a little money in profit sharing — and a place to put advertisements. Without that, fewer people are seeing Forbes’ ads, and that’s bad for business. The longer its blogging platform stays down, the less happy its contributors will be. They could opt to take their words elsewhere.”

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