>I just read slashdot and later HN, and I trusted people who ran much bigger sites. But how could Nginx take such a lead that Apache could never catch up to? I

>I just read slashdot and later HN, and I trusted people who ran much bigger sites. But how could Nginx take such a lead that Apache could never catch up to? I read that in the last 10 years or so, this is what has happened to other successes like Slack etc : The users are becoming the decision makers as opposed to CXO handing down tools. I think developer advocacy was one of the major reasons.