[grawprog]

>We appreciate you trusting us to host your assets and provide a space where they can shine.

Well, I guess that was a mistake for whoever did.

That almost reads like a hint of self awareness for their continued killing of things they release.

[VikingCoder]

You act like there's zero value to having someone else host your assets FOR A WHILE.

There is value. Yes, there's also cost to having to re-host your assets somewhere else.

[grawprog]

I didn't say there was zero value, my statement also came with the assumption that upon starting this service, google never made it clear it would be temporary. I may be wrong about that.

Also, not everyone can afford to re-host their assets, not everyone will be able to, some might not even realize it'll be lost.

The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community that's now being shutdown unceremoniously.

The lack of trust towards Google's products come not just from the services they're providing they shut down, but they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse.

It wasn't just the assets they hosted, it was the people they were trying to bring together that are now scattered again because they trusted google.

[VikingCoder]

"google never made it clear it would be temporary"

Why would you ever assume any service is permanent?

"The broken trust comes from the idea that google likely promoted this as something that will be a new ongoing community"

Anyone who "trusted" that a free service would work forever is being unrealistic.

"they try to build up communities then abandon them with no recourse"

They're hosting open source content. You can fork that. Anyone can fork it. If your content were hosted on Poly, you could use Takeout to download all of it in one go.

"that are now scattered again because they trusted google"

If there's any blame here, I would think it would be that there's not a group of people (like us at HN) who work closely with sites like Poly to back them up before they are shut down. Once we have a track record, we can ask Google to say not just, "We're shutting Poly down," but "and it's moving to Hacker News Back Things Up .com."

If someone wants to bridge that gap, moving this content to the Internet Archive or something, that sounds worthwhile.

[chaostheory]

It's a service tied to a paid $20 product called Google TiltBrush.

[VikingCoder]

There's a $20 product called TiltBrush.

There was Poly.

Titlbrush could export / import to Poly. That was added after the launch of TiltBrush, yes?

Sure, if you bought TiltBrush after Poly integration was added, I could see how that's taking away a feature you used, and that's a bummer.

[chaostheory]

Most people probably bought Tilt Brush post Poly integration due to the slow uptake of VR. I didn’t even realize Poly came out after Tilt Brush.