An interesting experiment, but apparently it didn’t work.
5 thoughts on “So long, Sulia”
Not enough content to be news, too much content to be a shitty content-farm. Too bad.
I was a Sulia contributor. I liked the concept but their implementation was weak.
I know. And they were aiming far lower than the level of work you were providing them.
Thanks for the link. The site did improve a lot over the year I wrote there–remember when it had no way to edit an old post and never showed up in Google searches, Shawn? But the biggest hang-up was probably that most people still didn’t think of it as a place to go to read neat stuff in the way, for instance, you might waste an hour browsing Tumblr.
LOL Yeah – I would dread hitting that Send button.
Another problem with it was curation. Because anyone could post to Sulia, it ended up being a firehose – the exact opposite of what they told me they were shooting for when I signed on.
Not enough content to be news, too much content to be a shitty content-farm. Too bad.
I was a Sulia contributor. I liked the concept but their implementation was weak.
I know. And they were aiming far lower than the level of work you were providing them.
Thanks for the link. The site did improve a lot over the year I wrote there–remember when it had no way to edit an old post and never showed up in Google searches, Shawn? But the biggest hang-up was probably that most people still didn’t think of it as a place to go to read neat stuff in the way, for instance, you might waste an hour browsing Tumblr.
LOL Yeah – I would dread hitting that Send button.
Another problem with it was curation. Because anyone could post to Sulia, it ended up being a firehose – the exact opposite of what they told me they were shooting for when I signed on.