Social Browser Flock Shuts Down

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Flock, the social browser we had high hopes for back in August of 2005, is officially in the deadpool today with a ?Gone Fishing? note attached to its website. The note reads:

?Support for Flock browsers will be discontinued as of April 26th, 2011. We would like to thank our loyal users around the world for their support, and we encourage the Flock community to migrate in the coming weeks to one of the recommended web browsers listed below.

Our Recommendations

Since no further security updates will be provided to keep you safe on the web, we encourage all Flock users to upgrade to one of the two browsers listed below. Both are based on the same reliable technologies as Flock, and both are being actively maintained and improved. Also, each of the following browsers has a broad selection of add-ons and extensions to customize and extend their capabilities.?

Flock originated on the Mozilla platform but then switched over to Chromium in 2010. At its height it had 10 million users but then fell by the wayside just as the better funded RockMelt was emerging in the same super niche and perhaps unwarranted market.

The team behind Flock was brought on to Zynga in January, in a talent acquisition that did not include the technology, the service or CEO Shawn Hardin. As Zynga never owned Flock.com, it had nothing to do with today?s shutdown.

TechCrunch

Heard of it, used it once and didn't like it.

RIP

[Paul Ferson Veteran]

I heard of it, tried it both in its guise of a Chromium based browser and as a Gecko based browser and couldn't love it in either manner. It just didn't feel good as a social browser: RockMelt does a better job of the social browser system but I'm surprised Flock has disappeared so soon after reaching the Chromium based version.

[Scorbing]

TechCrunch

Heard of it, used it once and didn't like it.

RIP

I never liked it. I thought it was bloated and useless.

[booboo]

Rockmelt FTW!

[Tharp Daddy]

I found Rockmelt to be a great social browser, never liked Flock though.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

I used Flock when it first appeared in beta, and it was sorta pointless even then.

[Eli]

This reply was made using my Flock browser :(

R.I.P Flock

[soonerproud]

Oh well, Flock it!

[Adrian0E]

Oh, well... I thought it was dead for years.

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

Never used it. No loss to me.

[Wyrdstorm]

I used it, liked it but only used it on my main PC....R.I.P Flock!!

[bjoswald]

Hopefully Rockmelt will disappear too. Both bloated browsers are unnecessary since almost every major browser supports extensions.

[Brandon H Supervisor]

it was a great concept it just didn't turn out too well

[nub]

pointless browser fails

[Yorak]

Bloated, worthless browser. Glad it can peacefully die.

[Raa]

Heard of it, never used it. Just stick with official platform browsers, it's easier.

[Rappy Veteran]

Rockmelt FTW!

this :yes:

[tiagosilva29]

**** the social web.

[Growled Member]

I tried it a couple of times and I never could get into it.

[primexx]

took them long enough