Thanks for using and visiting NewsPublic.com but it's time to go. In our hayday we had over 30 users using the site and logging in at anyone time and that was just amazing.

We wanted to create a website where all the stories were wrote by fans of news and people who cared about what they wrote.

Citizen journalism we called it.

This worked for a while but we found that people were too passionate about what they wrote and all these people couldn't or wouldn't work together anymore. Their views and ideals all mixed, a group of very colourful and exciting people.

As I'm the last one out the door and before I turn out the lights I would like to thank Dale Hyde (co-founder), Vinny Price (co-founder), Esta Weiss (co-founder), Sara Star, Ethel Smith and Karl Gotthardt - though apart from the co-founders others worked on the site at different times but these are the main people who helped make newspublic original from the beginning and at the end.

If I haven't said your name - a big thanks to you too!!

So that's it.

Again, thanks and goodbye.

Ricky Kelly - Co-founder