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Vox is ded
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 01:07 pmhttp://team.vox.com/library/post/vox-is-closing-september-30-2010.html
Vox is going under, possibly because of a rumored merger of Six Apart. Apparently according to Comscore, there are still 5 million monthly visitors (although other web analytics companies say less), but bigger sites have had the plug pulled on them.
Anyway, especially considering that most social media/blogging sites are not public, users generally have no idea about the financials (and current financial health/future health) of a site; therefore, they can only assume that it is unknown how probable it is that the site will go under in the near or distant future. So basically, when you use a lot of these sites, you assume that it could all go kerblooey one day, which isn't a problem if the stuff you post is ephemeral, or if you have a backup. Most of my stuff is pretty ephemeral, and I try to back up when I can. However, backups assume that the format is readable by either by me, or by whatever site I'd like to restore to.
Vox is going under, possibly because of a rumored merger of Six Apart. Apparently according to Comscore, there are still 5 million monthly visitors (although other web analytics companies say less), but bigger sites have had the plug pulled on them.
Anyway, especially considering that most social media/blogging sites are not public, users generally have no idea about the financials (and current financial health/future health) of a site; therefore, they can only assume that it is unknown how probable it is that the site will go under in the near or distant future. So basically, when you use a lot of these sites, you assume that it could all go kerblooey one day, which isn't a problem if the stuff you post is ephemeral, or if you have a backup. Most of my stuff is pretty ephemeral, and I try to back up when I can. However, backups assume that the format is readable by either by me, or by whatever site I'd like to restore to.
