My friend was CTO over at friendster and what he said was they had massive scaling problems, but instead of turning off feaures and getting some quick fixes they spent a couple years rewriting the core while ignoring the running service. By the time they got their tech in order a core of users left for MySpace and eventually Facebook.
Friendster was killed by the big rewrite.
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