Six Apart and Vox—How Promise Gets Squandered

Six Apart is shutting down its free blogging service, Vox, and as Mike points out this announcement is really about cleaning up for an upcoming merger with VideoEgg. With 250 million uniques worldwide spread across thousands of blogs and a growing ad business, Six Apart isn’t a failure. But, like Slide and like Digg, it hasn’t lived up to its promise either. And products like Vox are a big reason why: As blogging was getting more open and commenters more mean spirited, Vox was intended as a clean, well-lit place in the blogosphere. It had a great UI and some nice features like a “Question of the Day” to get reluctant new bloggers up-and-writing. But then it just sort of withered.

via techcrunch.com

poor bebeh VOX. never know what hit it

Comments

[Laurihs]

Typepad sucks. It can't keep me signed in.
I can't even find out how to import photos.

I am too grumpy today to deal with this.

I don't understand how simple clean intuitive Vox goes down while crap like WP and this stay in business. For now.

[DoctorD]

I too am disappointed. I'm trying to learn TypePad, and after some false starts got things imported okay. But I like they simple way that Vox worked.

I like your description of it as a "clean, well-lit place." Just what I want!

I really mis Vox.