RIP Hugg

Announced earlier this month, TreeHugger’s social media platform for all things green, Hugg, has reached its final days.

As many people may know, website costs can be a little worrisome to your wallet even if you are just starting out, but once a website hits a certain stage and develops a substantial following, web and maintenance costs only skyrocket and sometimes, no matter how good your website ratings are or how many advertisements you put on a website, you come to a point where you must ask yourself if the money and the effort is worth the payoff received. This could very well be what happened with Hugg, as it has had a decent lifespan as far as social media platforms go, and has developed into the resource for green news.

As of November 17, Hugg no longer accepts new registrations or submissions and after the new year, hugg.com will transfer directly to the TreeHugger forums, where over 6,000 members currently share environment news, information, events and resources. If you’re like a great deal of the green online community, and see the closing of Hugg as an invaluable resource for green information and news, the TreeHugger forums will implement a new category specifically for posting and commenting on green links. It isn’t as good as a social media platform, but it will generate a seamless TreeHugger experience as well as the opportunity to reach across website lines and meet other, interesting and like-minded treehuggers.

If you are devastated over the loss of Hugg and are craving a social media platform specifically for all things green, I highly suggest you check out GROW, a news service from About My Planet.

Hugg, you will surely be missed.