Shutting Down My Site

Well since it paid, why not sell it, or give it to someone who will run it. I check Freshome almost daily. You can say looking at other people's home is pointless specially expensive ones because most readers will never live in such a house. However some people may just find it joyful. Just check your logs and see the ten most frequent visitors, ask a couple of them to run it.

Re: Shutting Down My Site

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Post by fooandbarify » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 6:49 PM UTC

patdryburgh wrote: post #2

Sorry, the title was censored.

That blog post really resonated with me. Thanks for writing it.

Re: Shutting Down My Site

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Post by erikb » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

Well, I have no idea who you are and what pages you are shutting down. Of course I wish you the best for your future. That being said:

"The real question is, who gives a fuck?"

Re: Shutting Down My Site

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Post by hpaavola » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 6:58 PM UTC

It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone.

Destroying bits is so darn easy, that people do it too much. I don't delete emails (my spamfilter might delete, I don't). Once in a while it's nice to see what you were up to 5 years ago.

My personal homepage is still running. I haven't updated it in many many years, but it still there. Occasionally my friends and I check some photos from there that I posted almost 10 years ago. And I regret that I have deleted all previous version of my homepage.

And it was a sad day when GeoCities was taken offline.

Sure, if keeping your site up and running (even in read-only) costs too much, it's ok to shut it down. But please, try to save as much of the current Internet as you can so our children can see its history.

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Post by generators » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 6:58 PM UTC

Exactly my thought, Who gives a fuck ?

Re: Shutting Down My Site

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Post by patdryburgh » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 6:59 PM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #4

Well since it paid, why not sell it, or give it to someone who will run it. I check Freshome almost daily. You can say looking at other people's home is pointless specially expensive ones because most readers will never live in such a house. However some people may just find it joyful. Just check your logs and see the ten most frequent visitors, ask a couple of them to run it.

This was an option I considered and discussed with a friend who is well known in the minimalism/productivity space.

To me, it's actually more of a moral issue: is keeping a site like Simple Desks online good, bad, or neutral to the world. I'm sure it's different for different people, but I just couldn't shake the feeling that in the end it was detrimental to people's time.

We have better things to do with our time, and much more beautiful works of art to get enjoyment from.

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Post by cjfont » Sun, Jan 01, 2012, 7:02 PM UTC

I'm glad you found something more fulfilling to do with your time, but that doesn't mean the Simple Desks idea was trivial, or on par with a porn site. I'm certain that many people can appreciate the ideal workspace setups of others, and yet it's not like something we would be fapping to. Honestly, I'm sad I didn't get a chance to really see the site before it got taken down.