Last week I wrote about my fun little weekend project for Semantic UI. Well it turns out I wasn’t the only person to have this bright idea.

I released builtwithsemanticui on January 25th, and he released builtwithsemantic on January 27th. The big difference, though, was that he reached out to the Semantic UI author immediately, while I decided to wait and never had the chance to.

Well, speed kills, my friends. The author loved the idea and decided to put it in the readme and docs. In other words, it became officially endorsed. Which doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for my site, builtwithsemanticui, now does it?

So I did the only thing I think the nice, friendly, open source community would want me to do. I reached out to the owner of builtwithsemantic and offered to give him my domain for free and have it point to his site. This also avoids any confusion for users who aren’t sure which is the “official” showcase site. And I will add all the sites that were on builtwithsemanticui over to builtwithsemantic and then proceed to delete the builtwithsemanticui tumblr. *tear* [note: I have yet to hear from the owner of builtwithsemantic after reaching out to him a week ago. I will follow up again]

Ah well, you win some and you lose some. No worries. Part of the process is knowing when you’re beat (and when to fight). Besides, builtwithsemantic is better and has way more potential, so it deserves to be officially endorsed. Onwards to bigger and better things.