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  • Why purchase a website, just to run it into the ground? I never understood this.
    by kellengreen
  • COVID happened. Money was aplenty. Then snapback happened. And there were many firings and cancelled projects.

    There were a lot of products and ideas that felt great during ZIRP but stopped making sense post-ZIRP. That's my take.

    by m3h
  • Often politics, lack of vision, people being shuffled around, etc (e.g the stakeholder that decided of the acquisition just got moved to an another department, this kind of things)
    by ygouzerh
  • what are people using instead of digital ocean now?
    by micromacrofoot
  • Hetzner. I like the company and how they operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQeJYEN_lrg

    Plus, it's an EU company. I don't want to rely on US hosting for my business.

    by spiderfarmer
  • Hetzner
    by jordanscales
  • I switched over to vultr months ago, so far so good!
    by recov
  • Hetzner + Coolify + BunnyCDN for the entire stack

    I'm moving off Vercel / AWS. I kept DO for a Minecraft server for friends/family but that's dead.

    by rpastuszak
  • TIL Chris Coyier sold CSS Tricks in 2022.
    by bsimpson
  • That's what going to happen to tailwind too after the acquisition.
    by owebmaster
  • Tailwind is basically already EOL in its functional inability to support newer CSS features. Both of these projects seemed like the creator being fine with getting out with a nice paycheck, and that's ok by me, although it's unfortunate DO lied about how it would handle CSS Tricks going forward, and generally abandoned the tech writing aspect it was initially known for.
    by threetonesun
  • Has Shopify given money to Omarchy too? Or more so because now Tailwind is owned by someone larger?
    by EspadaV9
  • Perhaps just make it open source and static host it
    by est
  • You're arguing to kill it, effectively. It's been being published to up until this month
    by bastawhiz
  • Can’t the site be migrated to Astro/static and be hosted on CF/Vercel? It could be a great resource for LLMs
    by wiesson
  • It is a great resource for humans.
    by malmz
  • the title is really underselling it; as the post is very concise, i won't repeat it here but it's worth reading
    by ewy1
  • The writing quality definitely dropped after the acquisition. It's a shame, CSS-Tricks taught me so much early on.
    by rkeswick
  • It really lost something when Chris Coyier stopped writing for it. He just had a way of writing fun and approachable tutorials for this stuff, and the other contributors didn't hit the same style.

    (no shade to Geoff Graham, he did good work as well)

    by CM30
  • Complaining that they give money to people you don't like is not a good look when you want them to give money to people you do like.
    by account42
  • In this case you can judge for yourself if it's an overreaction. https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
    by benatkin
  • "People you don't like" is a great euphemism for racists
    by blactuary
  • I think it’s a very good look when the people you complain about are racists.
    by prinny_
  • "people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.
    by mb_thd
  • Because being friendly works doesn't work. Open source maintainers have been screaming about funding for years. One dude comes along, adds some scripts on top of all the work of those maintainers, and gets millions in funding?

    You can't expect people to be nice then. It's completely messed up.

    by boredpudding
  • Tbh I can't see how any site about tooling doesn't go the way of Stack Overflow. I used to follow the latest framework and CSS articles avidly. With agents it's a moot point.

    It's sad. But rather than fight it, we should be thinking about what communities we form next, in a world where knowing flexbox tricks isn't a flex.

    by bilater
  • https://janetdocs.org/ is growing pretty fast, but that's because the community's forging an anti-AI niche of fun hobby coding.
    by veqq
  • That's because those AI's were trained on existing "CSS tricks."

    If people stop writing new CSS tricks, they will never make it into any dataset, and it won't matter if the AI can search the internet or not, because they won't be posted on the internet either.

    Essentially, mass scraping has a chilling effect.

    by AlienRobot
  • I am concerned that what will happen to detailed technical write ups that defined much of the "technical internet space"? There used to be "CodeProject" (still is around probably) that used to have great articles on C, Windows Programming, Windows System programming and what not. Similar other sources on Web as well such as some TutPlus network.

    Now with LLMs, they won't gain attention and all knowledge would be stuck in LLMs but there would be no knowledge base to train the LLMs on so... would this all collapse in a decade or two?

    PS: Not anti AI rant, just a genuine open question.

    by wg0
  • > it's not just an anti AI rant, it's a genuine open question

    There will probably still be some passionate people dedicated to this kind of thing, but presumably not as many, which is unfortunate.

    by phoghed