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points by manytimesaway 4 days ago | 0 comments

FYI, Gitbook was made by the team behing friendco.de, which they killed without any announcement years ago.

I’m genuinely sorry the end of friendco.de impacted you. It was 12-13 years ago; the service had little usage at the time, and we probably didn’t handle the end perfectly. I don’t recall exactly, but I can assure you that the team today is more experienced.

[–] manytimesaway 4 days ago

To be fair, I don't recall exactly the end of it either (I did not think it was that long ago!), but I remember being severely disappointed by the sudden disappearance of it (AFAIK I was trying to set it up inside a community project), and as such not trusting GitBook afterwards.

Thanks for the honest answer, nonetheless. Good luck with the incident.

[–] viccis 4 days ago

Not really relevant here.