[fn-mote]

Ah, somehow I missed the part of the announcement where "the site will be fully shutting down on July 1, 2023".

WHY, GOOGLE???

Those problems are beautiful. What would it cost to leave the site up??

Leaving us absolutely nothing for posterity? Scorched earth.

:(

[lrem]

I'll offer a guess educated by almost a decade of working for Google: security treadmill. How can you trust something to stay secure for more than a couple weeks? Borg will outright refuse to run any binary that's been compiled a couple months ago. Couple that with notorious internal API instability culture and you get just this - can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself. So they did the better thing here - give a schedule for the turndown, instead of "this will stop serving a couple months after some binary no longer compiles".

[musicale]

> can't hope to have a thing just stay up by itself

Archiving the problems and editorial solutions as static html would have been nice.

[lrem]

It would, but then you're talking about a launch of a thing that wasn't there before. So you need to go through all the reviews needed for that, which might be way too much work for a volunteer trying to salvage something that just lost the team.

[29athrowaway]

This is why

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