Andy Baio The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams:

In June 2023, the servers just started returning errors, making nine years of member contributions inaccessible, apparently forever — every post, artwork, song, portfolio, and the community built there was gone in an instant.

How did this happen? What happened between the idealistic manifesto above and the sudden shutdown?

It’s a story so old and familiar...

Ello was fun for a while, but like so many others became just another reminder that manifestos and good intentions are often meaningless in the long run.