I get that. ffffound was wild. But there was also a context. I recently go this shared to me, https://reffffound.com, and it just doesn't feel the same. I really liked are.na for a while, still do, kind of, butbless obsessed with it.
Was thinking about this again after hearing @rabble talk about how the campaign to bring Vine back worked as well as it did. Because of peoples nostalgia for the things that were taken from us and the new context of today's landscape it feels increasingly doable. I sorta want to reach out to yosuke abe and keita kitamura and see if they have a final backup or if they would approve of such a thing
Other gems from the early era I would love to see be reincarnated in their original form are 43things and del.icio.us