Mmmm. As I recall, DejaNews decided to reskin and become "Deja", along with making their service much stupider and more user hostile. Then, they died. I think

Mmmm. As I recall, DejaNews decided to reskin and become "Deja", along with making their service much stupider and more user hostile. Then, they died. I think there was a SaveDeja campaign for a while before Google finally bought the archive. I was not thrilled with what Google did with the archive after that--hugely disappointing, actually--but first the stupid and then the dying happened before Google touched anything.