The last two go for communities, too. I've been a member of at least a couple great online communities where the owners lost interest but could not handle handing their baby to someone else - so they killed them instead.
They seemed utterly blind to the awesome communities that had formed, and unable to grasp how much harm shutting down caused to so many people.
They seemed utterly blind to the awesome communities that had formed, and unable to grasp how much harm shutting down caused to so many people.