Lament

It's sad when a online community dies. Sometimes a thriving community is broken up when the online service that hosts it decides one day to close it down. Sometimes communities die a long drawn out death as the membership of the online service that hosts it declines. I've seen both of these happen.

And sometimes it self-destructs because the membership just can't get along.

Or worse still, a group is destroyed through a moment of madness from some of the people that are supposed to be the moderators of the group.

Let's hope the enough of the former membership regroups in a new place, and spirit of the group survives in some form, somewhere.

Update: Looks like that's happened, as can be seen here.

Update 2: Look at the modified "Net Communities" blogroll, which I have now updated to reflect the new reality.