Communities fragment as they migrate, online and especially offline.
ToyTown Germany died, and overnight both the community and its decades-old body of knowledge vanished. An identical forum was created a few weeks latwr, and it's still pretty much dead, many years later.
All those communities who tried to move away from reddit due to the API debacle? None really survived the transition. Moving away from a platform means losing all the passive traffic from that platform, and losing many more users to the friction of creating a new account. All the information stays on the older platform too. All that friction adds up.
I mean it wouldn't hurt to give something a bit of thought and consideration before calling it hot bullshit. Since you created an account just to post this, you might want to familiarize yourself with the HN commenting guidelines. They keep things civil and pleasant.
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Communities fragment as they migrate, online and especially offline.
ToyTown Germany died, and overnight both the community and its decades-old body of knowledge vanished. An identical forum was created a few weeks latwr, and it's still pretty much dead, many years later.
All those communities who tried to move away from reddit due to the API debacle? None really survived the transition. Moving away from a platform means losing all the passive traffic from that platform, and losing many more users to the friction of creating a new account. All the information stays on the older platform too. All that friction adds up.
I mean it wouldn't hurt to give something a bit of thought and consideration before calling it hot bullshit. Since you created an account just to post this, you might want to familiarize yourself with the HN commenting guidelines. They keep things civil and pleasant.