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by hermitcrab 1022 days ago
I was one of the moderators on Business Of Software. IIRC (its a long time ago) it was finally shuttered because:

-it was getting less and less popular

-the software that ran it was getting creaky

Also I suppose it was marketing for FogBugz. When Trello and StackOverflow took off, it wasn't really needed anymore.

Joel was a brilliant writer. I miss his insight.
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wvenable 1022 days ago
When Joel stopped publishing articles there wasn't any content to drive the conversation. However, it was still a pretty popular forum when it was closed by Joel.

I think it's successor peaked in popularity way after that but started to drop off as there was no obvious way to get new users. The old method of people checking their HTTP logs for referrers to see who was linking to their content and then joining the conversation stopped being a thing.

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