It's seems to be the way of things in life. Both online and off. Something is born and it's free and awesome. A bunch of people get turned on to how awesome it is. A few of them realize there is profit to be made. So they set up a structure to support the awesome and make a profit at the same time. Slowly the original founders are replaced with people who are concerned less and less with the awesome, yet more and more with the profit. In the interest of appealing to a wider audience and thus increase profits, much of the awesome is subjugated or removed entirely. The masses stick around long enough to provide the profit. But those of us who came for the awesome slowly trickle away.
I can think of a short list of 1000 sites this has happened.
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Date: 2008-03-20 07:56 am (UTC)Something is born and it's free and awesome. A bunch of people get turned on to how awesome it is. A few of them realize there is profit to be made. So they set up a structure to support the awesome and make a profit at the same time. Slowly the original founders are replaced with people who are concerned less and less with the awesome, yet more and more with the profit. In the interest of appealing to a wider audience and thus increase profits, much of the awesome is subjugated or removed entirely. The masses stick around long enough to provide the profit. But those of us who came for the awesome slowly trickle away.
I can think of a short list of 1000 sites this has happened.