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Important Good Internet announcement

June 8, 2026

Alexandra

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In late May, Good Internet had a breach into the web server hosting it. I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone who gave me a head's up that the website was being weird! I ended up transferring hosts, and I'm currently still restoring anything that was lost in the migration.<br>No database breach was found, so no action is required on your part. The breach only sought to redirect links to a malicious download, and no personal information was accessed.<br>With this situation – as I've been working on only it for the past two weeks – I have realized this project may have reached the ceiling of effort on my part. I have been partially over my head technically and partially burnt out from the process.<br>After the Autumn/Winter issue, I wrote a personal blog post about how it felt to publish a magazine. In response, I received a bounty of responses of folks willing to learn the programs or experienced in design. I cried at the response and found myself unable to reply, in shock at the thought that folks would actually step up and help. Thank you to everyone who reached out, genuinely. I wish I had asked for help sooner.<br>I must confess: I have entirely lost money on Good Internet, despite a not-insignificant amount of folks who supported the project. I undercut myself and tried to keep the magazine affordable. Without scale, print media is – shocker to no one – expensive. Unfortunately, my well has gone dry, both energetically and financially.

Some personal context

After five years of deep involvement in the personal web and trying to help others in expressing themselves online, I want to pivot my focus on my life and creating the vision of my next chapter. I've been able to focus deeply on projects like Good Internet over the last year while being unemployed, but my projects now outnumber my spoons as my life has changed; my projects have kept me inside and online, even when I don't want to be.<br>Journalism, writing, and digital content is indeed my background and professional field, but after seventeen years of being publicly perceived in my writing, my efforts, my projects – I want to live without observation for a while and create without pressure.<br>When I found the indie web, I was in a completely different place. I was single and living alone in a studio apartment in Nob Hill, San Francisco, thinking the world as we knew it was ending.<br>I'm now 35. I'm getting married in September to my partner, with whom I live in a completely different state. I want to make our house a home together. I am involved in a lawsuit that I can't talk about, and our trial, if it goes to that, begins at the end of the year. I'm still looking for a job. (And if you know of any content-related roles available, reach out.)<br>My life is completely different from where I started. It's different than when I started Good Internet.

Good Internet completed a full volume, but I do not feel comfortable maintaining subscriptions during this indefinite hiatus.<br>Immediately:<br>All subscriptions, monthly and annual, will be canceled.<br>Print editions of Spring 2025 are still available for purchase.<br>Any further issues will be announced via email.<br>High resolution and low resolution Digital Editions will be available for download to all free members in a couple of weeks.<br>All money that was received from 2026 subscriptions are going into the digital infrastructure of Good Internet, including hosting through our new host and email services. Please reach out if you'd like a refund, which I entirely understand at this stage.<br>I'd like to keep the site up for archive, so at least through the end of the year. I'd like to reassess then, also, and consider if Good Internet comes back in 2027. I'll notify you as soon as I know. If you'd like to continue supporting the website and project, feel free to contribute – you'd be helping me a lot.<br>I know this decision will be met with mixed reactions, but I want to thank you so much for your continued support and belief in this project. I love each and every single one of you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.<br>x Alexandra<br>personal email: al@xandra.cc

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