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Yes! I'll make sure subscribers with subscription until the final issue stay active at least for few more months. Drop me an email cheng.soon at hackermonthly dot com and I'll reactivate your account to download the back issues.

Thanks, Patrick. Now I finally have the time to get my hands on Stockfighter!

As other comments have pointed out, not having the subscribers list is my non-negotiable terms if someone wants to take over. In fact, after I refunded everyone, I'll reset my server and remove all my DB backups so I won't even have a copy of it.

I know it doesn't make business sense for someone to buy a business without any customers. That's why I never explore the option of selling it.

Thank you so much. That meant a lot to me.

Thanks Kale, and your kind support over the years.

And Yes everyone, Hacker Newsletter is excellent and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Thanks Jacques!

I'm thinking of "open sourcing" Hacker Monthly. The process of making it, the InDesign template I use (and optimized throughout the years), the resources etc. That way, anyone can start their own "Best of HN" magazine or really, any "Best of" magazine.

This is one of the reasons I didn't put Hacker Monthly up for sale when I've decided to shut it down.

Our subscribers (a little over 10k) trusted us enough to provide us their contact information (and mailing address for print delivery). Turning them over to 3rd party (even after due diligence) just didn't seem right.

I'm not sure there's a specific reason. 5 years is a long time (for internet years). I guess I just wanted to shut it down before it wither and die. I also wanted to explore other options (e.g work on new, different things).

Thanks. Certainly more than I expected. And I definitely wouldn't expect people to subscribe to a service that's shutting down soon. (also didn't expect this to get on front page)

Yup. You can still subscribe now and get all the previous issues for free.

Thanks.

I won't be selling the site. I'll probably leave the site up (for as long as I can). There just won't be any new issue. People can still go to the site and buy digital/print copies.

Thanks. Exactly how I felt about closing it and not selling to someone else.

Thank you.