Marketplace News

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Manifold is eternal

They go bankrupt

Other

Shut down by the U.S. federal government

People lose interest in it and stop using the site

Ship-of-Theseus'd into a new website

Founders are disappointed in slow/no/negative growth and shut Manifold down.

Not with a bang but a whimper

Bought by a large corporation but later shut down for not being profitable

Bought by a large corporation & monetized to death

Founders shut down Manifold due to community drama

will be dyed into a zebra pattern in black and grey

Outcompeted in the online marketplace

Once big enough to be noticed, regulators either shut them down or hobble them into irrelevance

A lover's quarrel

Erotic auto-asphyxiation

destroyed by great hwan empire

As a consequence of a global catastrophe (nuclear war, hostile AI takeover, etc.)

Heat death

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YES

YES

YES

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YES

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