In regards to the opinions about the quality of HN
I've been a long time fan of online community. I've had forums that I attached to and gave them my "blood, sweat and tears." I've made myself a well known member of MMO communities because I enjoyed chatting in the game more than playing it. I turned Blizzard's Battle.net gaming service into an IRC-like hacker chat service because I hadn't discovered IRC yet. I've hosted my own IRC server since 1999 - averaged like ~40 users consistently since then, too! Do you know what the one thing that running this IRC server has taught me over the past 12 years? The people and the purpose behind the server change over time. Initially, the server was full of 14 year old kids, my e-friends from all over the globe, hacking Diablo and Warcraft. I had friends on there that I never thought would leave. Over the period of 12 years things happen, though. Some of them got married. Some got jobs that demanded
Why it failed
I've been a long time fan of online community. I've had forums that I attached to and gave them my "blood, sweat and tears." I've made myself a well known member of MMO communities because I enjoyed chatting in the game more than playing it. I turned Blizzard's Battle.net gaming
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- Skywing
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews