alt Hacker NewsMaybe when it started back in the late 90s it was a bastion of great information; however, I have never found a single answer that was worthwhile on there when landing from a search engine query.
If anything, this is likely flooding LLMs with incomplete/invalid/useless information and it's just time they deprecated it in favor of something more modern and useful.
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The times I've searched there and came up with lazy answers that farm the forums by copy-pasting the happy path in official documentation... If you're going there, you're looking for cases when "just works" "just doesn't", and the fix isn't covered in the official use cases.
That compounded with how solutions become obsolete as Apple changes things for the sake of it makes me understand a little why Apple would want to sunset them.
At least it let you know that the problem you’re trying to solve is real (and typically unfixable) and it isn’t just you.
I’ve also heard that the forum went downhill after a major redesign in 2011.
I always heard iOS engineers pissed by Apple's lack of documentation, is there something actually more modern and useful ?
But if a canonical good source of info is to exist, where should it be so that AI doesn't devolve? Is it simply upvoting answers AI gives us, but again where should that info go? Maybe this repo of info was bad, but it feels like there needs to be some repo.
Well, there was the infamous "double press enter on a blank password gives you root" thing, that started out on the apple forums, and _was_ a solution :-)
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/79235 (comments at the time: "macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676)
(although this one was the developer forum, which seems separate?)
> it's just time they deprecated it in favor of something more modern and useful.
If there was going to be "something more modern and useful", Apple would have posted that.
It appears that Apple is simply killing the community with no replacement.
Same. I've almost never found my question actually answered there.
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Disagree.
According to my own browser history last time I landed on this forum was to figure out why the Apple Maps app was taking so much storage despite being a rarely used app. The post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256084682?sortBy=rank, which was the first thing from a search engine query, completely solved the mystery. It was the stupid significant locations feature that I don’t need.
Then the second item in my browser history was https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253015477?sortBy=rank which explains how to change the location where screenshots are stored. Isn’t it a superbly intuitive UX design that locations of screenshots produced by Command-Shift-4 should be changed by pressing Command-Shift-5?