The lifecycle of every single online service:
- The early days: the website provides one service and provides it well.
- Traction: people recognize that the website's service is excellent, and flock to it.
- Maturity: the website's creators are elated at their new found success, and, seeking to improve their service, begin to perform upgrades, updates, design changes, and create exploratory features.
- Bloat: the website is either no longer growing at the rate it once was, leading the creators to start implementing predatory features that return greater revenue per visitor, OR it begins to morph into such a complicated and burdensome entity that it now offers n services instead of just one, where n is a number that increases until step five is reached.
- The autumn years: people start to notice that the website no longer provides the one service they care about as well as it used to, and start looking for a competitor that will provide that one service and provide it well.
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Most of the regular and semi-regular users here (except two, as far as I know) are non-native English speakers. But we're trying to learn how to type, write and speak this foreign for us language better.
Geeze folk, I sort of feel bad about this. You see I have very much respect for you mulch-lingual users. For one I have absolutely no talent for languages. Among other things I just can not wrap my mind, my tongue, nor my brain around languages. The good maker left me without these talents.
Then too, I'm one of those native speakers. Yet I can probably butcher the English language far better than someone who is just learning. ツ
I do hope you good folk are not depending on me to aid you, as you have picked a very poor one in that capacity.