I am personally stunned to learn one individual created such a legacy.
What also concerns me deeply is that the resource will be gone for the
many new to Apple and accessibility who may not have a solid public
resource to draw upon.
Speaking Personally, I hope the executive team leverages a bit of those
referenced apple contacts gaining help to archive the material there.
its a profoundly valuable collection of information. Indeed the site was
technically well done, cannot imagine who was creating such a toxic environment..a handful tainting things for others..
Karen
On Sun, 28 Jul 2024, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries wrote:
Damn.
But of course it's entirely right that a volunteer-run site should give its
first priority to those volunteers. They owe us nothing and, indeed, all good
things must come to an end, eventually. Particularly in a much more turbulent
climate.
But it's such a shame. The site was competently run, technically. And the
public visibility undoubtedly helped in a way that perhaps a mailing list
couldn't.
I'd be devestated to see the whole thing go up in smoke, turn to dust. I hope
the content is somehow archived as a testament to the community. While I love
mailing lists and archiving them is easy, they don't have quite the same
outreach; hopefully, some sort of sequel is imagined, perhaps a hybrid of both
forum and list, which gives the users of both something to be happy about.
Groups.io isn't too bad, but something self-hosted would be better. Maybe
Discourse, or something like it.
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