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Ooh, they’re about to do another Liquid Glass, aren’t they?
Not much will be lost. Any post that was remotely negative/critical about their product was deleted by the mods.
That’s similar to covering your ears with your hands and shouting “La la la la” really loudly so you can’t hear the endless complaints.
Oh no, I loved people telling me to reset SMC and PRAM to fix everything
Genius!
akin to indeed killing thier forums to silence people critical of certain jobs/industries, it was valuable for certain niche fields you ar getting into.
Shame. There was highly useful information in there, well beyond the copy-paste “reset settings and reboot” from the official channels. Motherfucker, if I hadn’t already tried that, I wouldn’t be here. I’m looking for stuff like a command line prompt to reset the audio Bluetooth daemon without restarting. God forbid someone figure that out and share it without a 3-hour in-store appointment.
Honestly anything useful has already been trained into the AI engines. Asking them has been more effective for most cases for quite a while.
If you kill all the sources, nothing new will get added to their knowledge.
they will probably just move to reddit unfortunately.
The Apple Reddit community moved to discord quite some time ago. https://www.discord.gg/apple
Discord is hot garbage for use cases like this, and I don’t understand how someone asking a question would actually get a useful answer there.
It is, I miss forums. Honestly I don’t know where to even go in this day and age if I have a tech problem. Tom’s Hardware is a shell of its former self, New Egg is a joke now. Quakenet is a ghost town, I feel like covid wiped out the last of the grey beards and now we live in a barren hellscape populated by tech bros, vibe coders and discord kittens.
oh wow somehow that’s worse
It is.
The Internet was supposed to democratise information, and back in the days of open forums it actually did - when search engines actually found relevant content instead of paid slop.
Then all the Internet’s niche communities moved into Discord and that content disappeared, locked away behind account walls, unsearchable and unfindable. Now Discord own that data and can use it, sell it or restrict it as they please.
Just like with google maps, millions of people have spent countless unpaid hours building an absolute treasure trove of data not owned by the public, but owned by a megacorp.
I hate that we have done this to ourselves.
Interestingly, they announced awhile back that they’re going to expose it to search engine indexing : https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-to-let-search-engines-index-public-server-messages/
On the angle of being maybe able to find some useful info that forums used to provide… nice. On every single other angle, gross.
Plus the big search engines are garbage these days anyway due to all the LLM slop and I highly, HIGHLY, doubt you’ll actually be able to find anything useful from a search that includes this index.
I’ve used it a lot. Mostly because Apple has done nothing but fuck up since ios26.
It is patrolled and controlled by shills, that shut down any mention of how bad the iOS has become.
Really has become a very Nazi kind of place. I suspect they got tired of people saying the iOS is shit so they just are going to turn it off.
But it was still useful.
sounds like what WOTC did to the gatherer comments and ratings.
WOTC is speed running enshittification with mtg. Honestly, it’s a bit of a relief, because it makes it easier to boycott those Pinkerton-hiring assholes.
Mtg was always shit. It’s the original gacha p2w game.
Aside from that, removal and prevention have always been too strong in the design, which stops most synergies , especially at low and middle tiers of play.
discussions.apple.com… memories of applying mysql deltas to remove posts they didn’t like.
The release of the original iphone, at&t fucking up, and apple batch deleting threads. Absolutely miserable night at work.
Its what?
It was useful 20 years ago. Even as recently as 10 years ago. But forums like Reddit were much more accessible and interactive and helpful, and it’s been a long time since Apple Support forums were worth anything at all.
Even for the most ardent Apple fans, nothing of value is being lost here. just the departure of a somewhat charming relic of the past.
It’s interesting… Do you have any theories as to why people on Reddit were more useful?
Too bad that some older mac systems are still working and those workarounds that are useless to modern systems are still relevant…
I have a 15 year-old iMac running Fedora. I use it as my Plex server.
It’s plenty relevant
Is someone going to mirror it?
If they do, hope they use a slow overloaded server so you have the same experience. Any time I’ve used that forum it was one of the slowest sites.
that’s because they were running it on a Mac.
How much can it cost to host? Especially for them?
Pennies on the dollar; the problem is paying people to moderate it and tow the company line.
Random correction, but interestingly, the saying is “toe the line”
Don’t underestimate the cost of moderation to keep literally illegal shit like CSAM off the platform. People try to post that type of stuff all the time on large forums, and it has to be culled as quickly and efficiently as possible.
A small community forum may have an idiot or bot try once in a while, but big places have to deal with that crap all the time and have entire teams dedicated to managing that.
That’s typical of Apple. Silencing their critics. Why not when they’re a trillion dollar company. Money has stuffed their ear holes from hearing anything critical from the bottom.
I see you’ve been successfully silenced.
