yea hopefully gox is finally circling the drain. . . this is going to be a messy month for bitcoin.

For BTC to really be long-term successful gox needed to either fix itself up (no evidence of that over the entire year of 2013) or shut down.
The half-broken state it's been operating under has been detrimental to peoples confidence not only in exchanges, but BTC itself.

After it's gone hopefully we will see new exchanges appear with better transparency and communication.