[jacquesm]

I've killed off a fair number of them over the years, mostly because I feel that if someone doesn't develop any traction at all I might as well pull the plug on it. Some were just ways to try out some new technology (ok, make that 'excuses', not 'ways'), others were done purely for fun.

If something did develop traction I would support it for years and years even if it ended up having very few members (livelog was one of those).

I find it difficult to kill off projects that have a few dedicated users, usually I contact them to find a way in which I can let the project go away without hurting their feelings.

Right now the biggest one that is on my 'deadpooled' list is the free drupal hosting site that I started a few years ago. At some point it had a few thousand domains on it, right now I think we're down to below 50, and every month one or two make the move to another hosting provider. Another three years and I can kill it.

Websites are like children, five minutes of work to launch them and you must support them the rest of your life ;)