StumbleUpon Is Shutting Down After 16 Years of Service (techcrunch.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: After launching in 2002, website discovery platform StumbleUpon is shutting down on June 30. Over its existence, the service racked up 60 billion stumbles for 40 million users, cofounder Garrett Camp wrote in a Medium post this week.

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not really 'shutting down'

[Anonymous Coward]

more like 'merging' with mix.com, a different site created by the same co-founder.

techcrunch, of course and as usual, is guilty of publishing a shitty article that simply paraphrases the original post on medium and only glossed-over that very important detail at the very end.

read the original post from camp here instead:
https://medium.com/@gc/su-is-m...

basically, su users will still get a similar service, just at a different domain. big whooop.

Re:What service?

[themusicgod1]

The service is piercing our filter bubble, and giving people a dose of 'random' in dull moments.
Being able to step outside of our comfort zone, and skip to a part of the world wide web that we did not expect to be in. It's like setting a random course, turning on the warp drive, and stopping after a random period of time - to explore new life, and new civilizations. To boldly go where some people had gone before, but which might have otherwise lived and died as a niche part of the web that only some hipsters would know about. Unlike reddit which cultivated the "best" content of the web, stumbleupon connected people to parts of the web that they wouldn't normally go, showed them things through the eyes (and reviews) of people they wouldn't normally read.