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These kinds of arguments literally kill me.
Since we're discussing grammer, when you say "literally", you mean figuratively?
All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.
I would love to see what % of their visits is the flexbox article.
this number is public: https://css-tricks.com/thank-you-2021-edition/
total traffic 88m, flexbox is 6.7m of that. speaks to their deep bench tbh.
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Linode included affiliate program links for authors, that's not comparable to paying cash. I can't speak to whether DO did copy article contents (though I remember the rumours at the time and don't doubt it) but there is a meaningful gap between asking people to contribute vs. paying for the content, and that's why DigitalOcean achieved so much with their library despite launching later: people actually wanted to wri…
You’re talking past me, particularly harping on the blog you found from 2014 despite me directly addressing it in my reply to you (and using it to question my recollection), so it’s clear we’re not going to agree. I’m also not a fan of being told events and discussions I was a part of, firsthand, and pissed off about, firsthand, is me failing to remember the truth accurately; that’s really insulting, fundamentally, a…
"I wouldn’t have left this seemingly negative for no reason comment had you not identified DO’s documentation strategy as an early insight. It was an early insight, but absolutely, definitively not theirs. They raised the VC to get exposed to this audience and successfully presented nearly all of Linode’s business insights as their own, and it’s understandable that it seems that way if you didn’t follow Linode before DO.
The first several years of DigitalOcean’s existence made it very clear they looked at Linode and said that, but with funding rounds. And that’s fine. They’ve done well. But let’s not attribute insights to their copies of things; their primary corporate insight all along was realizing Linode was handicapped with bootstrapped capital alone. And to give them credit, it was undeniably savvy to apply Linode’s successes to scaling DigitalOcean. It just means it’s not their ingenuity in any sense of the word."
I did follow Linode before DigitalOcean. I did espouse the wonders of Linode, day in, day out. I did resist switching from Linode to DigitalOcean for years because of brand loyalty. I do consider Linode very important in shaping the industry, but I categorically disagree with the assertion that DigitalOcean's core insight was that Linode were cash-poor and all someone needed to do was "Linode but with VC". Your time at Linode and your damaged relationship with Linode are not evidence that DigitalOcean is Linode-but-with-money.
We aren't discussing your lived reality, we're discussing your dismissal of the achievements of DigitalOcean.
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These kinds of arguments literally kill me.
Since we're discussing grammer, when you say "literally", you mean figuratively?
Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…
I'm actually pretty optimistic about this - DigitalOcean does great work around docs and tutorial type sites. Half of the time when I search for things like, "how to install nvm on Ubuntu 20.04" a digital ocean article comes up, and it's really well done.
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Since we're discussing grammer, when you say "literally", you mean figuratively?
Grammer conversations are the very pineapple of useless discourse, and I don't see why we don't nip them in the butt. Weather you say "literally" or "figuratively", both are equally understandable for all intensive purposes. So as far as I'm concerned these arguments serve no porpoise and we'd be better off if they faded into Bolivian.
Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…
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Their strategy from the start was to use evergreen technical content to attract devs, to raise the visibility of their products with target customers. It diminishes their early insights to cast this acquisition as merely part of a trend.
DigitalOcean’s strategy with evergreen technical content was to duplicate Linode’s strategy with evergreen technical content wholesale , down to individual articles. Linode Library, including a complete custom CMS and community engagement strategy to pay Linode users to help generate evergreen, was in place and driving conversions long before DigitalOcean was founded. They cribbed just about everything substantive fr…
I’m sure DO took a lot of inspiration from Linode, but it always seemed like the heir apparent to Slicehost, which was the best designed/marketed/documented VPS host until it was sold off/shutdown.
Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…
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DigitalOcean’s strategy with evergreen technical content was to duplicate Linode’s strategy with evergreen technical content wholesale , down to individual articles. Linode Library, including a complete custom CMS and community engagement strategy to pay Linode users to help generate evergreen, was in place and driving conversions long before DigitalOcean was founded. They cribbed just about everything substantive fr…
I’m not debating anything you’ve argued (I don’t know enough to know one way or another, except I will say that as an end-user, I remember liking DO’s documentation more in 2011 than Linode’s, but that doesnr mean the content is wasn’t still largely copied), but didn’t Slicehost (RIP) innovate the whole docs/tutorials as a sales funnel thing? I’m sure DO took a lot of inspiration from Linode, but it always seemed lik…