Kind of depressing, but not surprising.
I hadn't updated the LOW PAY markets list since forever. In these times of magazines and newspapers folding, I thought it was time.
Realize that low pay markets are usually low pay because they're running on a shoestring and writers are being paid out of the publisher's checking account.
Not surprising, but ... about half the list went into the trash bin because the magazines/zines are no longer in operation or are no longer paying or are no longer saying whether they're paying or not or only let subscribers submit and then pay a dinky bit at that.
Two magazines (STRANGE HORIZONS and TRANSITIONS ABROAD) graduated to the regular paying markets lists, which I will update soon as well. A couple more had increased their pay, but not so much that they got off the LOWPAY list.