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> I wonder how much GDPR had to do with bringing them down. Since they didn't cite that as a reason, I am going to conclude none. Even if they did cite it, I w

> I wonder how much GDPR had to do with bringing them down. Since they didn't cite that as a reason, I am going to conclude none. Even if they did cite it, I would still be inclined to assume it was being offered as a palatable pretext for a simpler baser bottom-line-driven business decision. A little Googling shows that TES Global acquired Wikispaces in 2014: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140304006078/en/Wikispaces-Acquired-TSL-Expanding-World%E2%80%99s-Largest-Single-Profession https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140304006078/en/Wik... TES appears to fancy itself a social network. Wikis are a slightly different animal. And now that TES has Wikispaces users in pocket, I imagine they could care less about maintaining a wiki platform.

downandout 8y ago
>I imagine they could care less about maintaining a wiki platform And yet they spent money to buy it just a few short years ago. Seems odd doesn't it? I have been on the Wikispaces site within the last year, and there were no obvious attempts to get me to sign up for any other site, so this was not a grab at users. Now they're closing less than a month before GDPR takes effect (after 13 years of operation), citing the high cost of keeping up with modern standards. While they didn't specifically mention GDPR, I'd say the likelihood that it had no impact is roughly 0. They wouldn't be the first company to pull out of EU over GDPR, nor would they be the last. Here's one example: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selling-stuff-europe/ https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2017/12/gdpr-stopped-selli... . According to that blog post, even Microsoft shutdown a specific service due to GDPR compliance issues.