I was one of the original users of the site. The article, while good, omits what I think are two of the most important causes. When CUCommunity was relaunched

I was one of the original users of the site. The article, while good, omits what I think are two of the most important causes. When CUCommunity was relaunched a CampusNetwork, there was a long period -- several weeks, perhaps months -- when the site was down. Completely. When it came back online as CampusNetwork, a lot of the user base never came back. People who had previously made regular visits to CUCommunity were now using Facebook instead. The second, and possibly more fatal problem, was that the site community's attention became focused around trolls. Abusive attention-seeking users were often the first people one encountered on the site, and most of the discussion on the site revolved around them. Facebook's salvation from the latter fate came from the lack of universally accessible communication features: a feature they have yet to implement, perhaps for that very reason.