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This title really implies Corgi (or someone associated with the company) made the site. It was a shitty third-party with no association who did it.
by gkoberger 2mo ago
This title really implies Corgi (or someone associated with the company) made the site. It was a shitty third-party with no association who did it.
- LocalH 2mo agoThat's honestly just an expression of how the "base level" of corporate ethics and morality has sunk so low that it is fully believable that such a site could have been spun up by an employee of Corgi, so many of us are conditioned to take the worst possible interpretation of any such headline. I did the same, actually, until I clicked through and skimmed it. However, the headline itself does not say anything like that. It simply says they "killed" the website. Which they did, via legal threat. I think the specific wording they used was more engagement bait than anything, and honestly a quite mild version of it compared to many. Might even have been completely unintentional.
- peesem 2mo agoi think (especially on HN) "X kills Y" usually means X owned/controlled Y and are ending support or whatever. e.g. "Google kills Glass" (for more, see killedbygoogle.com) or "Microsoft kills Skype" (for more, see killedbymicrosoft.info)
- atmavatar 2mo agoIf we replace "short-lived" with "third-party", it would clear up the confusion without adding any more characters.