[filmgirlcw]

I’m not debating anything you’ve argued (I don’t know enough to know one way or another, except I will say that as an end-user, I remember liking DO’s documentation more in 2011 than Linode’s, but that doesnr mean the content is wasn’t still largely copied), but didn’t Slicehost (RIP) innovate the whole docs/tutorials as a sales funnel thing?

I’m sure DO took a lot of inspiration from Linode, but it always seemed like the heir apparent to Slicehost, which was the best designed/marketed/documented VPS host until it was sold off/shutdown.

[snorgle2]

100%. Good memory, too. Slicehost probably deserves credit as well. I’m not arguing for who deserves it. Arguing for who doesn’t. Slicehost’s approach to a number of things was better in a lot of ways and they did documentation a little differently, but you’re right, the funnel concept is the same (between all three).

I miss them too. They were respectful competitors and I know they were generally liked by competitors. There’s just a fine line between getting the idea for a funnel and copying its entire execution down to subscribing to RSS. I think there was mutual respect between both companies on that. With DO, not so much.

To be clear, it’s not Apple vs Google here, it’s the idea of DO coming out of the gate with that execution being a stroke of genius. They had (thanks for the reminder) multiple precedences and actively copied from at least one.

[dotancohen]

Why are you posting from multiple accounts? snorgle, snorgle2, both of which are recently-registered accounts? You might have an innocuous reason, but it seem a suspicious workaround to site rules or voting.

[CRConrad]

Wild-assed guess: They forgot the password for the first one, so made a #2?