# The Death of Upcoming.org

<http://waxy.org/2013/04/the_death_of_upcomingorg/>

- Host: [waxy.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/waxy.org/)
- Saved: April 22, 2013 (2013-04-22T21:38:50Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d43dcadda359/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d43dcadda359.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

In hindsight, selling Upcoming to Yahoo was a horrible mistake. Selling your company always means sacrificing control and risking its fate, and as we now know, online communities almost always fail after acquisition. (YouTube is the rare exception, albeit one with billion-dollar momentum.) But Yahoo was a particularly horrible steward for the community.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

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## Saved the same week

- [The PA Report - Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men, and how one studio is fighting back](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/7149ca36ef4e/) (penny-arcade.com, April 22, 2013)
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- [ArchiveTeam Warrior](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d8c5adaa00f9/) (archiveteam.org, April 23, 2013)

## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://waxy.org/2013/04/the_death_of_upcomingorg/