"From a distance," the exchange was one of the tops in bitcoin. The proof is in the pudding: the media thought so.
For members of this forum, Mtgox was an obvious disaster, however, we are the minority.
This. It was so obviously going downhill when there was such a huge gap between the price at gox and the price at other exchanges. But the majority clearly did not think their sh*t through at the end of the day.