China is losing an exceptional and respectable portion of its blog echo chamber, with the shuttering of news-and-views-and-then-some website The Nanfang who are ceasing operations before their seventh birthday. From the goodbye post from site founder Cam MacMurchy: "Like many online publications, we haven’t exactly hit our revenue targets for a variety of reasons. I won’t bore you with them all here, but to say that web publishing in 2016 is a tough business..." Amen, sister. Speaking on behalf of SmSh from around the digital way, cheers. And job well done. You will be missed.