You have not been paying attention the last two years, as they decided to go subscription instead of loaded with ads like anything nowadays owned by Future, like Toms Hardware, Anything Central.

You've read them without a subscription for 15 years, but they had 15 years of salaries, server cost, etc. That is what happened

paywall is better than ads

I assure you that you haven't missed anything:

> It’s not clear when Discord will make the full switch over to Rust, but Vishnevskiy says the company “hope to get it into testing with users soon.”

soon™

And yeah, The Verge was one of my favorite resources earlier too but I've stopped visiting it due to subscription requirement on most articles.