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Sounds like they are leaving the site up but not writing new content? That could actually be worse than just taking the site down as it will quickly grow outdat

Sounds like they are leaving the site up but not writing new content? That could actually be worse than just taking the site down as it will quickly grow outdated.

awinograd 6y ago
> We recognize that our tech writing staff drive a great deal of value to MDN users, as do partner contributions to the content. So we are working on a plan to keep the content up to date. We are continuing our planned platform improvements, including a GitHub-based submission system for contributors. Looks like they won't write new content themselves, but will have a system for keeping content up to date
- picodguyo 6y ago
  A defunded part of the organization "working on a plan". Does not sound super promising.
  - kinlan 6y ago
    All the members of the PAB are working with Mozilla to support them in the long term. We believed it's a shared responsibility to ensure that the web platform is documented well.
unilynx 6y ago
Taking it down would leave us with w3schools, arguably a lot worse situation than letting the current MDN grow stale..
- rezonant 6y ago
  Incidentally, I bet a lot of us would pay to have w3schools taken down
  - gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
    Why? In recent years w3schools has been a valuable resource...
- rikroots 6y ago
  > Taking it down would leave us with w3schools I've long avoided w3schools, but a lot of comments on various HN threads suggest the site has improved a lot over the past few years. If true, this makes me less worried about the future of MDN. Plus there's other reference sites I find myself using from time to time, for instance Can I Use[1] (which has a Patreon) and QuirksMode[2] (supported by donations). Monocultures, in my view, are not good for the environment - and that includes coding reference sites. [1] - https://caniuse.com/ https://caniuse.com/ [2] - https://www.quirksmode.org/ https://www.quirksmode.org/
userbinator 6y ago
Those who destroy history are the worst.

Sounds like they are leaving the site up but not writing new content? That could actually be worse than just taking the site down as it will quickly grow outdated.

awinograd 6y ago

> We recognize that our tech writing staff drive a great deal of value to MDN users, as do partner contributions to the content. So we are working on a plan to keep the content up to date. We are continuing our planned platform improvements, including a GitHub-based submission system for contributors. Looks like they won't write new content themselves, but will have a system for keeping content up to date

picodguyo 6y ago
A defunded part of the organization "working on a plan". Does not sound super promising.
- kinlan 6y ago
  All the members of the PAB are working with Mozilla to support them in the long term. We believed it's a shared responsibility to ensure that the web platform is documented well.

unilynx 6y ago

Taking it down would leave us with w3schools, arguably a lot worse situation than letting the current MDN grow stale..

rezonant 6y ago
Incidentally, I bet a lot of us would pay to have w3schools taken down
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y ago
  Why? In recent years w3schools has been a valuable resource...
rikroots 6y ago
> Taking it down would leave us with w3schools I've long avoided w3schools, but a lot of comments on various HN threads suggest the site has improved a lot over the past few years. If true, this makes me less worried about the future of MDN. Plus there's other reference sites I find myself using from time to time, for instance Can I Use[1] (which has a Patreon) and QuirksMode[2] (supported by donations). Monocultures, in my view, are not good for the environment - and that includes coding reference sites. [1] - https://caniuse.com/ https://caniuse.com/ [2] - https://www.quirksmode.org/ https://www.quirksmode.org/

userbinator 6y ago

Those who destroy history are the worst.