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September 27, 2010

Goodbye Vox ()

by fluffy at 5:13 PM
My Vox consists of:
  • Two entries when it first launched, consisting entirely of seeing if its HTML entity support was any good (first entry, no, second one, yes)
  • A one-line entry 6 months later
  • Another one-line entry 6 months later, answering the "question of the day" thing
  • A complaint a year later about how the only reason I was even logging in was due to getting a bunch of spammy PMs via Vox, an observation that Vox was full of nothing but spam, and a declaration that Vox would not make it very long
It took two more years but it's finally shutting down now. I think Vox could have been something more than it was, but it was basically a victim of being a me-too effort launched by a company that would then later buy out what it was a clone of to begin with, before they lost interest in it and spun it back off, and then decided to focus on corporate/enterprise blog solutions. Frankly, the only reason I even signed up for it to begin with was to lay claim to the name "fluffy" (which is the only reason I originally signed up for Twitter, too, although that one has done much better for me).

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