alt Hacker NewsI feel bad for the people who dedicated significant time to helping others there. I just pulled up a random page and there are users with tens of thousands of answers and profiles professing their love of all things Apple. Suddenly going read-only with no warning and killing it shortly after just seems like such a cold and abrupt way to end what was clearly some people's hobby and point of pride. I hope they at least do something to privately acknowledge the most helpful users beyond the boilerplate message.
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> I feel bad for the people who dedicated significant time to helping others there.
Why? When they wrote those answers they (presumably) helped the people who asked questions at the time.
The fact that what they wrote won't (necessarily) continue indefinitely into the future doesn't diminish the value they provided in the past.
Let's face it, most of the answers were non-answers by people trying to up their reply count. I have never ever found anything helpful in these forums and anything slightly negative towards Apple gets handwaved away by these "powerusers". It had the same problem as the MS Answers forum. Good riddance.
If there's one website I won't waste a teardrop over, it's that Apple communities website. Good lord, that entire place is textbook example of technically-polite toxicity and gaslighting, inflicted by tactics not limited to non-answers. But then almost all the Apple related online communities are just that.
Tale as old as the internet. WoW player dumps 1000s of hours only to have their account rendered useless.
It’s a good reminder that it’s never your profile on someone’s platform. It’s their profile with your user handle. And their data.
All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain