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> Platforms with millions of users never fail quickly. Yes they do. When a better product arrives that gains enough traction, users migrate very quickly. Myspa

by afro88 11y ago

> Platforms with millions of users never fail quickly. Yes they do. When a better product arrives that gains enough traction, users migrate very quickly. Myspace, Altavista, Aol etc.

mattmanser 11y ago
ICQ is a better example of how quickly people abandon communications platforms. Everyone used to use ICQ.
- k__ 11y ago
  Well, people used MySpace a long time. It even got relaunched a few times. So it din't die quick.
onion2k 11y ago
Not really. Only AltaVista is dead. MySpace: Still going at https://myspace.com/ https://myspace.com/ Altavista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista - shut down in 2013, 10 years after it was sold to Yahoo!. AOL: Very much still alive at http://www.aol.com http://www.aol.com, owns sites like Huffington Post. And in response to mattmanser, ICQ: Still going at https://icq.com/ https://icq.com/ They may not be the behemoths of the tech industry any more but they are definitely not dead. And the only one that is dead took a decade before it was shut down. Sites with millions of users never die quickly.
- adventured 11y ago
  Your position of never is not correct. Formspring failed extremely fast. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-anonymous-qa-platform-is-shutting-down/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-a... It was one of the fastest growing services in Web history, and unraveled just as fast. The existing service was completely shut down. The homepage is now some kind of funnel for another service. And an example that wasn't market based: Megaupload. 180 million users, killed overnight.
  - rickyc091 11y ago
    I've actually never heard of formspring. I guess the differentiator between formspring and twitter is that twitter is more mainstream. It's popular with celebrities, kids, etc. Formspring seems like a very specific niche market. Megaupload was killed due to piracy issues. A bit different.
- mattmanser 11y ago
  We are working from a different definition of fail.

by afro88 11y ago

> Platforms with millions of users never fail quickly. Yes they do. When a better product arrives that gains enough traction, users migrate very quickly. Myspace, Altavista, Aol etc.

mattmanser 11y ago

ICQ is a better example of how quickly people abandon communications platforms. Everyone used to use ICQ.

k__ 11y ago
Well, people used MySpace a long time. It even got relaunched a few times. So it din't die quick.

onion2k 11y ago

Not really. Only AltaVista is dead. MySpace: Still going at https://myspace.com/ https://myspace.com/ Altavista: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista - shut down in 2013, 10 years after it was sold to Yahoo!. AOL: Very much still alive at http://www.aol.com http://www.aol.com, owns sites like Huffington Post. And in response to mattmanser, ICQ: Still going at https://icq.com/ https://icq.com/ They may not be the behemoths of the tech industry any more but they are definitely not dead. And the only one that is dead took a decade before it was shut down. Sites with millions of users never die quickly.

adventured 11y ago
Your position of never is not correct. Formspring failed extremely fast. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-anonymous-qa-platform-is-shutting-down/ http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/formspring-the-pioneering-a... It was one of the fastest growing services in Web history, and unraveled just as fast. The existing service was completely shut down. The homepage is now some kind of funnel for another service. And an example that wasn't market based: Megaupload. 180 million users, killed overnight.
- rickyc091 11y ago
  I've actually never heard of formspring. I guess the differentiator between formspring and twitter is that twitter is more mainstream. It's popular with celebrities, kids, etc. Formspring seems like a very specific niche market. Megaupload was killed due to piracy issues. A bit different.
mattmanser 11y ago
We are working from a different definition of fail.