Just Heard Vox Is Closing

If any of you were around for the glory days of Vox, or Tumblr 1.0 if you will, this is sad but unsurprising news.  The folks who run the site have been letting it go to shit for years, paying attention to it only when they had a new sleazy, harebrained idea for “monetizing” the operation.

I met a lot of cool people on there, and a few of them I even still talk to.  I also had a SHIT-TON of content I posted over there, so I might be doing some rescue posts over here over the next few days.  Then again, maybe I’ll just let the whole thing die.  I’ve got some bad memories associated with that place, and I’m not kidding.

As shit as Vox became eventually, it had one huge advantage over Tumblr: YOU COULD REPLY TO COMMENTS MADE ON YOUR OWN FUCKING BLOG WITHOUT HAVING TO CLUTTER UP PEOPLE’S DASHBOARDS.  Also, you could READ PEOPLE’S PAGES AND COMMENT FROM THERE.  (This makes me so angry I could eat the entire Internet.)