[rmason]

Pretty certain we were at the same conference. There development practices horrified the group I was with in the audience. At a time that a new competitor appeared (Facebook) they made the fatal mistake of rewriting their software in dot Net. No new features for a year or more. Joel Spolsky wrote a pretty famous essay about the wisdom of doing that.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

[adrr]

Performance was the feature. Friendster should have been social network of that era but they couldn’t scale and had to shutdown new user registration. Same thing happened to Twitter but they had no competitor in short form social networking.

[lowcodetv]

Pownce?

"Twitter on steroids" [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce

[rkuykendall-com]

I remember when Kevin Rose of Digg made a lot of noise to launch this and then it very, very quickly died.

[conjectures]

Thanks for this one, it encapsulates a feeling I've had for a while but could never verablize so well.

[jeremycarter]

I live by that blog post.