"p.s. Comments are open. Tell it like it is.."

Followed by no comments section at all -- is a great distillation of how the web has changed in the intervening 17 (!) years.

And the linked photo “Dark at the beginning of the tunnel” is a 404.

Stewart went on to co-found Slack, and became a billionaire. Sometimes it's nice to see someone this open about "sucking" eventually becoming really successful.

Good human, honest, open communication from companies. So nice to see. It's a pity that we rarely get this nowadays.

Although it sounds cliched, let's be the change we want to see? We truly can get away more often with just doing things differently, according to our own values, in the software world. Still.

Was that still the ludicorp era or already yahoo?

That was 4 months after the yahoo acquisition, they had to migrate from servers in Canada to Yahoo's servers in the US.