We’re kind of bummed that it took us this long to notice, but on March 6, 2012 Bob Kronbauer (the creator of Pacific Skateboarding, Clubmumble.com, VancouverIsAwesome.com et al) decided to “lay the Club Mumble website to rest.” Here’s what he said:
Like any project, if you let something sit for long enough without stoking the fire and tending to it and shaping it (or launching new Honoris Professio projects, etc), it gets old. And it gets obsolete as new technologies come in and make it easier and easier to publish. I’ve been publishing online since 1997 when I started the first online skateboarding magazine (Pacific Skateboarding, remember that?) and if I know one thing for certain about myself it is that I have to dedicate myself completely to something or else I simply can’t be involved in it; I have an all or nothing kind of personality.
Kronbauer tried to get some of the many notable contributors to take of the site and maybe share a slice of the advertising with him, but no one wanted to do it so as he says he’s “closing the book on this chapter of Club Mumble. No longer an active blog, this site will now act as a time capsule for all of the super interesting projects that the members of our Club have shared here over the past few years.”
We’ll miss the site and most of all we’ll missing linking to the always engaging content.
[Link: Club Mumble]
