> It is hard for us to put into words how thankful we are to our customers

> we will be sunsetting the Vessel service at the end of this month (October 31). All subscribers [monthly price was $2.99/month] of Vessel will be provided complimentary access for the month of October

Less than 5 days notice?

Seriously, as if it were posted on April 1st. Mine as well should've added another disclaimer:

+ Assuming you read this far and be able to cover your own airfare to meet us, we will buy you one Mai-Tai in Bora Bora next week as a thank you.

Why was this title changed? The fact that they shut down with 5 days notice is pretty significant in my opinion. ( @dang ?)

Submitted to https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ as a textbook case.

Well at least they are giving out refunds, although this probably sucks considerably more to the actual content creators that were relying on Vessel for revenue.

On one hand I hated Vessel and the likes because they splintered the content it was tolerable because usually most of the content was timed exclusive, but now you see more and more YT channels either splintering their content across multiple premium platforms or if they are big enough starting their own premium platform (e.g. Screen Junkies Plus).

In the end, all I used Vessel for was the one-year free trial they offered when they started. I think it still benefitted the channels I subscribed to (i.e. Veritasium and Minute Physics/Earth).

Sooo that's why Linus stopped publishing exclusive content on there two days ago... Huh... Well, goodbye Vessel, I loved to hate you.