wil.to · 6d · discuss
We all needed a win. Cooler heads than mine are better left to tell the whole story of Digital Ocean’s “stewardship” of CSS-Tricks, particularly in recent months. The short version is that communication with the team uncerimoniously stopped, publishing was halted, and overdue invoices went unpaid, all of which happened shortly after announcing that they would be leaving modern social media platforms for Elon Musk’s X and right around the same time they withdrew their pittance sponsorships of public-good projects like GNOME and FlatHub, ended their policy of offering free hosting to Open Source projects, and contributed three million dollars...