Users are facing down the web forum’s IPO plans, but Big Tech’s attract-and-extract cycle can’t be stopped.

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    1 year ago

    The death of a website isn’t a single event, it’s a process that plays over potentially years. It plays out like your favorite restaurant dying: first the food gets expensive, then the food quality becomes garbage, and then you notice how few patrons come at peak hours. The day that restaurant died isn’t the day the “We’ve shut down” notice appears on the door. It’s started long before then.

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      1 year ago

      Had a Burger King near me die. It seemed sudden, because one day I went there and got lunch, and the next day it was closed forever. But in retrospect, yeah, you run for like 9 months with only 2-3 workers on, you’re not giving a very good impression, and it’s inevitable.

      I don’t blame the workers in any of that, they were doing their best. If BK wasn’t going to pay a livable wage, that’s their own fault, nobody wants to work a job that isn’t going to pay their bills.