fwiw their decision is foolish and shortsighted imo; the only reason i ever used do was because they hooked me in with their tutorials and guides

Kind of you to say. I know many devs have loved our content for a long time. I was one of them, which is the whole reason I joined as a tech writer. I can't claim to have helped create that solid library of tutorials, as I was only at the company for a little while. It's a real shame.

Just want to call out that I owe a lot of my career in webdev to DO tutorials. My first stack, LAMP, was heavily covered by DO.

Kudos to you and your teammates.

Which is crazy because a lot of the stuff I built out initially on DigitalOcean was due to reading the excellent tutorials. I appreciate your efforts.

Just want to add my 2c that DO tutorials are pretty damn amazing and I've got a number of them bookmarked for several common tasks. Even for such mundane tasks as wiping one's machine of stale docker containers/images.

This is really sad to see it go. I wonder if this could have been handed over to a better home. e.g. I love how Mozilla hosts a lot of pretty good content explaining basic web concepts.