alt Hacker News> What's with the expiration?
Generous interpretation - perhaps this is the default for posts on that site.
Less generous interpretation - definitely quite a weird way of posting something, including references to a GPG key, rather than some kind of pre-existing public social media account (which I'm assuming a social media manager would have) or a page on the Tindie domain.
At first I thought this link was created by some customer who copy/pasted an email or something. But https://www.hackster.io/news/supplyframe-sells-tindie-now-in... says it's the official communication itself.
It does not appear that Hackster.io have received responses to their inquiries made >5 days ago (I assume they would make a follow-up post if they did):
> Tindie, Supplyframe, and Siemens have been approached for comment. Rowsell's full statement was available on document sharing site PrivateBin at the time of writing, but was set to automatically delete in the next six days.
> Makers' marketplace Tindie has been down for over a week, following its acquisition from former owner Supplyframe by parties unknown — with claims that it is undergoing a major overhaul following a period of apparent neglect failing to fully placate its sellers.
> Rowsell's announcement has done little to placate buyers wondering if their payments have vanished into a black hole, and sellers who have been left unable to fulfill — or even view — orders and to withdraw their funds.