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StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to take content discovery to the next level.”
Writing in a Medium post, Camp said:
“After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to focus fully on building Mix and transition StumbleUpon accounts into Mix.com over the next couple months. We have built Mix to work on every browser and smartphone, to make the transition as smooth as possible. With a few clicks you can register and import your SU favorites, interests and tags — creating Mix Collections that are easily shared with friends.”
If you still use StumbleUpon, you’ve got until the end of next month to migrate your account over to Mix.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @01:14PM (4 children)
what do these services do?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @01:32PM
Collect information on users to sell to advertisers I guess, like most other internet (dis)services.
(Score: 4, Informative) by janrinok on Saturday May 26 2018, @02:15PM (1 child)
Stumbleupon finds content on the web that meet a list of your specified interests. By clicking on the SU icon in my browser I might be presented with an article on computing in general, Python 3, photography, folk music or languages, all of which I have specified as my interests. I find it useful when I have a few minutes to spare and I have found - or, more correctly, SU has found for me - many fascinating articles which have sometimes resulted in me learning something new or finding something to keep me interested for much longer than the few minutes that I had spare in the first instance!
You used to be able to sign up just by providing an email address, but this is no longer an option for Mix.com. The latter wants to connect your interests to a Twitter, Facebook or other social media site so as another comment has already said they might simply be collecting data to sell to others. In my case, they have an email address which has long expired and I have never received any spam or unwanted emails from them. It meets my needs quite nicely. YMMV.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday May 26 2018, @04:51PM
That was my guess: force a migration to something that can advertise better, or track better, or both.
Don't use either, so me too clueless.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @09:42PM
Websites for transvestites.