[dwild]

Jason Calacanis want to sell Hack a day, if all editor decide to quit and abandon him, they are acting against him... it's a owner but I guess it's also a friend. It's also the one that invested in that project, that believed in them...

Would you do that with a friend? Start a business with him and then years later, when he decide to sell his part, you just flee and start from another name, avoiding to buy his part?

[jlgaddis]

If he no longer wants to take part in it (it sounds like he already isn't) then I see nothing wrong with the others splitting off and doing their own thing.

The impression I get is that the people behind this project (raising the money) are the ones doing the hard work anyway -- they are the ones who should be rewarded, IMO.

Edit: I was gonna throw $25 their way just for the hell of it. I don't visit the site so, in all honesty, it doesn't matter to me if they reach their goal or not. I was feeling nice, though, and then, as I'm skimming over the page, I see that anyone who gives < $100 is apparently a "tightwad".

I'm keeping my $25 and I'm going to spend it on myself instead. If they want to keep their web site going they can follow joonix's suggestion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6045796.