CSS-Tricks in Limbo
The CSS-Tricks website is currently inactive following a history of ownership changes and layoffs at DigitalOcean. The author criticizes DigitalOcean for prioritizing funding for controversial figures over maintaining the publication and supporting open-source infrastructure.
Why it matters
It illustrates the tension between corporate ownership of developer resources and the community-driven nature of open-source software.
Bluesky ActivityPub View on the Fediverse Bluesky View on Bluesky I’m sad to say that CSS -Tricks is stuck in limbo again. The site was acquired by Digital Ocean in 2022 and it continued to run under their ownership until February of 2023 when Digital Ocean fired the people working on it. The site stayed latent for a year before Digital Ocean re-hired lead editor Geoff Graham in June of 2024 who got the ship sailing again.
Now, CSS -Tricks sits inactive again . Its future is unclear, because there hasn’t been any communication. Digital Ocean largely just went silent. Digital Ocean is a big company, and it can be expected that things get missed, especially with staff turnover. However, management is a small part of a larger picture.
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