Shutdown Reasons Speculation

Users question, speculate, and debate the reasons why a particular service, company, or product is shutting down or has been shut down.

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Sample Comments

isostatic Oct 30, 2018 View on HN

Why are they shutting them down?

ddalex Feb 18, 2021 View on HN

Perhaps that's why they are shutting down?

aliswe May 5, 2022 View on HN

I'm missing some backstory here, should it be shut down?

HaZeust Dec 12, 2024 View on HN

Looks like it was shut down voluntarily? Not sure yet.

chipperyman573 Apr 1, 2016 View on HN

Which is why it's being shut down

fx32s Apr 11, 2019 View on HN

Why would it need to be shut down.

sparknlaunch Jun 15, 2012 View on HN

Odd that they are shutting this down. I thought there would be some value in the users etc?

sgt Jun 30, 2018 View on HN

I still wonder why they shut down though

daft_pink Apr 1, 2025 View on HN

Why haven’t they just been shutdown?

StavrosK May 23, 2020 View on HN

Agreed, why are they shutting down instead of doing that?