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Not a fork. They just took over the account/listing, which preserves 1200 reviews, etc. As fascinating as it is deplorable.

Are forums like HN not also a social medium?

Always a fair question, but I don't see how that applies to his point one way or the other. There's an ounce of meat AT BEST in this article.

BigCommerce allows adult products. Other than that there are open source platforms which do the trick.

Looks like BigCommerce, Magento, or Shopware are better options.

Thanks for saying it so I didn't have to. I'm hard-pressed to see how Shopify are significantly harmful. They deserve their success.

"I grew fed up of being stuck in this e-commerce framework – having to work with its hyper-normalised MySQL database (the EAV model)"

2011? Had to be Magento. Not a great fit with what they were trying to accomplish. Not that they seemed to have a clear understanding of how to accomplish what they wanted, which was to throw spaghetti at a wall and hope something made them rich.

Sure, this place is loads better.

And that's no laughing matter (seriously though, kind of a big deal!)

Technically, no, and then they would probably terminate the employee.

Maybe this is better stated as "If you resign from a hugely visible platform, because it's bad, but you don't tell anyone, have you really maximized the impact of your resignation for good?"

Multi-Level Marketing, e.g. that person from grade school who messages you out of the blue to ask how you're doing, and then tell you how much better you'd be doing with daily injections of IsoLeanIonigenTonicWater which you will also want to sell once you feel amazing/thin/virle/whatever.