Ask HN: Is Pando doomed?

Pando, like so many publishers, doesn't understand what the market will bear - or how to deliver solid UX. Although I'm curious how that paywall is working out, I doubt it's doing very well. Many visitors have probably replaced Pando with content from elsewhere already. I wonder why a publisher won't innovate with advertisers instead of users - create static, non-tracking, unintrusive ads and tell advertisers that they are protecting the user experience instead of selling out access to their visitor's metadata and profiles. Sell that to advertisers until they get their heads out of the sand. No, I won't ask someone for a Pando link, support the paywall approach or share Pando content with others. I'm sure that I'm an acceptable loss for their bottom line - at least for now.

Pando has been doomed for the past year and I am genuinely surprised it still exists, especially since TheNextWeb and GigaOm, which had actual readers, died badly.

When is the last time anyone saw a Pando post on the front page of HN? True, what Pando has set up is not as strict as the FT (which appears to have an impermeable paywall), but I suspect very few people are even seeing their content in the first place.