It was pretty useful to know when something got broken for more than just you. E.g like iPhone mirroring being absolutely unreliable.

Obviously there never way to fix it in Apple walled garden, but at least you knew if others have same issues,

> I don't remember the last time I found anything useful on there.

Ditto. I'm sure it was a valuable resource during the earlier years of Apple when they were a much smaller company with a much smaller community of users, but those days are long gone.

sounds like Apple is trying to get customers to perform their support duties. Same thing with Microsoft, Dell, Nvidia, etc. Saves them a ton of money not having to actually provide real support.