cli.gs down = anyone have the skinny

[b_sun]

Getting server not found. Usually not good. Anyone know what the dealio is?

http://cli.gs/

 

[habeeb]

Their Twitter hasn't been updated in months, so no clue.

Weren't they going out late last year, too?

 

[BackBanana]

it's owned by Mister Wong | Social Bookmarking Tool

 

[habeeb]

it's owned by Mister Wong | Social Bookmarking Tool

I thought for sure this was going to be a dickroll.

 

[xtacx]

The site was sold to the current owner last year, and they just fucked it up.

 

[b_sun]

Kinda sucks, as they had tracking going.

 

[justo_tx]

The Blog of Cligs - Cligs Shutting Down

 

[b_sun]

That's odd, I was on the site no less than a month ago. That blog says Oct 2009 for a shutdown date.

I don't get this either. How can you not monetize tens of thousands of registered users?

Cligs is a big service (for some definition of big). It has tens of thousands of registered user accounts, and does tens of millions of forwards a month. Not bad for a one man show doing this on the side. However, a service this size requires customer support, which is time. It’s not much time in absolute terms (an hour a day usually), but again, for me, it’s a context switch I can do without.

Fail.