Honestly, as someone who in one way or another has the birdsite to thank for every paid job I've had in the past decade, a leap into a career I never thought possible for someone like me, and who gets a good 90% of my website traffic from that place, this sucks. Yes the owner deserves everything that's happening (and more) and the site itself was never some wonderland of creative virtue, but still...
(On a semi-related note: Cohost's refusal to let me post directly to my friends, even in public, is probably the one thing that stops me settling in here. It always feels to me like everyone's just monologuing at each other, rather than a real community)
