I just read Manu’s post “On planting seeds”. How People and Blogs is moving on is not very related to what follows, but what Manu says about the life of web projects made me think of what Craig Mod wrote when he and his team decided to shut down good old late Hi.co:
Web projects often lack hard edges. They begin with clarity but end without. We want to close Hi.co with clarity. To properly bookend the website. Sometimes web projects exhaust themselves. Outlive themselves. Are allowed to stagnate, be forgotten. Resources dry up and then one day — poof — they’re gone. This has happened countless times, Geocities being one of the foremost examples. We don’t want this to happen with Hi.co.
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Hi.co was a great project, ahead of its time, on which I read great stories. I even published some pieces on it.
