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Not one guy, the guy who run it and was acquired with it, therefore a shutdown lurks in the future.
by sofixa 4y ago
Not one guy, the guy who run it and was acquired with it, therefore a shutdown lurks in the future.
- bdlowery 4y agoChris Coyier built css tricks, ran css tricks, and sold css tricks to digital ocean. Geoff was an employee.
- hnbad 4y agoChris built it. Geoff was the chief editor and had been with CSS Tricks for half its lifetime (i.e. seven years) when Chris sold it to Digital Ocean and left. Pretending he was just "an employee" is seriously underselling what this layoff means. Yes, Chris leaving caused more damage to CSS Tricks than Geoff being laid off. But Geoff being laid off is the killing blow to what CSS Tricks used to be. I'm not the first person to say this: https://zellwk.com/blog/spirit-of-css-tricks/ https://zellwk.com/blog/spirit-of-css-tricks/
- justeleblanc 4y agoI can't predict the future like you seem to be able to, so I'll stand by my assessment of a misleading headline. I can count at least two comments in here that were written under the impression that the website is shutting down for good.