What’s with all of this seemingly whitewashing of history? Slava himself described why it failed. I mean as founder you have to be laser focused. Yet he was too busy trying to win over his “hot new employee” than focusing on the database.

There is an archive of his deleted tweets here where he describes it: https://gist.github.com/travisbrown/059310042193a2e143408b05...

And then there was an article that seems to be gone from the web (https://web.archive.org/web/20201130215752/https://threader....). It stands to reason this huge distraction played a role in the mismanagement of the database and why it ultimately didn’t succeed.