They're shutting Gitch down. Anil's just trying to be high-minded and optimistic without saying anything specific. I'll be surprised if they do anything new with Glitch.

This absolutely is a "Our Incredible Journey" story, but just with a good migration off-ramp.

Well, it has a better migration off-ramp than most “Our Incredible Journey” stories, but they don’t even promise to keep redirects working beyond the end of next year. Fastly can absolutely afford to do better than that.

I'm similarly lost as GP, and even reading this, I feel like I'm missing something.

If HN said they're disabling new submissions and comments, that'd effectively mean they're closing the site, and would probably say that outright.

But Glitch aren't saying they are shutting down, but they're removing the feature that I thought made Glitch a thing. So nothing is left, yet they continue? Is this a 180 pivot or? Are there other features that will still be usable?

It could go the Piczo route—a website builder aimed at kids and teens, not for polished blogs or ecommerce, but more for one-off, personal and playful friend-to-friend sites.

> a website builder aimed at kids and teens

They're still just hosting websites in that scenario, which seems to be exactly what they don't want to do. A bit like if GitHub decided they didn't want to host source code anymore.

Bloody hell. That name takes me back. I got started on web with Piczo (albeit moved on very quickly).