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Beloved 27-Year-Old Gaming Site Wipes Forums, Relaunches as Gambling Cash-Grab
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- biglyburrito 1y agoTLDR: Old owner sold the site & the new owner turned it into garbage.
- bitbasher 1y agoA tale as old as timeeeeeee
- mrkramer 1y agoReminds me of a recent thing when PCgamer.com replaced Disqus with its own native comment system and wiped thousands of comments from their website.
- giingyui 1y ago[flagged]
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoIt puzzles me to see people on HN that don't run ad blockers.
- nanoxide 1y agoThe ad even appears on my Firefox Mobile, which has uBlock Origin installed and goes through a PiHole running on the network.
- acdha 1y agoThis point would have been stronger without focusing on the race of the guys in the ad
- giingyui 1y ago[dead]
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- acdha 1y agoI fear this kind of thing is going to become more and more common. A lot of the early web was created by people who are dying, retiring, or burnt out by running community sites (especially in the AI spam era) and the siren song of cashing out is always right there.
- _mlbt 1y agoThey don’t even have to cash out. The minute they stop renewing their domains this becomes a possibility.