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TextDrive shuts down
- odonnellryan 13y agoIt's sad to see that happen to a company, but where can we find information about what they did exactly, and where it went wrong?
- oomkiller 13y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
- oriste 13y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7318940
- billturner 13y agoI collected quite a few events that have happened in the last few months that lead to today: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-textdrive/ http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
- chimeracoder 13y agoThat doesn't really seem to paint Joyent in a very favorable light. IMHO, it wasn't a good idea for TextDrive to sell lifetime subscriptions, but if Joyent knew that when they purchased TextDrive, they should have continued to honor them.
- foltz 13y agoTextDrive and Joyent were founded by the same people. Joyent continued to sell "lifetime" plans after it consumed TextDrive. Here's a screenshot ( http://cl.ly/UFhp http://cl.ly/UFhp ) from one of their lifetime offers. Of note: "How long will it last? As long as we exist." At that point, early 2006, TextDrive was a Joyent company. Joyent still exists.
- anthony_franco 13y agoSuch a shame. I don't know about their latest iteration, but TextDrive used to be one of the few hosting companies that hosted Rails applications. Back in the Rails 0.10 days when many other hosting companies didn't even know what Rails was. For a while they were the official Rails hosting company and helped many of the first Rails developers get their first sites up and running. It's a real shame to see them shutdown.
- jacquesct 13y agoWhat was an added bonus is in those days rails core members were providing rails support on TextDrive.
- TempleOSV2 13y agofuck-it God biotches God says... no_more_tears this_might_end_badly middle_class you_never_know ahh what's_up how_about_that play hope bank joking happy_happy_joy_joy thats_right fortitude quit Tomorrow vote I_am_not_amused baffling I removed CDocBin.type That's why old graphics files don't work. You fix it. Fuck you. No Shutdown, just turn-off.
- opendomain 13y agoI paid for LIFETIME hosting. The biggest reason I have not adopted NodeJS is I will never again trust Joyent and especially Dean Allen.
- jacquesct 13y agoAs I recall your account was cancelled by Joyent for abusing the support staff and you were offered a refund at that time of your account.