Yes! It's exactly what it says it's not, an Incredible Journey post, from Anil, who is a laser-sharp writer.

I kept reading because I assumed they were going to - idk open source it or allow you to host Glitch apps elsewhere - but nope, it's just a straight shutdown announcement. What have I got wrong?

I'd assume there is some obfuscation required by owners or whatever pending a change of ownership, something like that?

Anyhow, RIP, if the internet has taught me anything it's that we can't have nice things for more than about 10 years.

Considering Anil boldly stated "MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0" https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/20/mcp-web20-20/ I'd bet now the golden handcuffs are off, it's AI VC money time baby