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Title is sensationalist. Should be something like "Transition to Cyanogenmod.org"; Cyanogenmod is not offline, just cyanogenmod.com Google already give you cya

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  • lambda 14y ago
    Sensationalist because it is false, and misleads you in a way that makes you believe this is a bigger deal than it actually is. Nothing is offline. All that has changed is the domain. "Cyanogenmod" is not offline. "cyanogenmod.com" is offline, but everything that was there is at "cyanogenmod.org" so even saying "cyanogenmod.com is offline" would be misleading. Also, the "taken offline by developer" part is patently false. The website was taken offline by someone who donated the domain name, and is now using it to try and make affiliate deals and extort the developer. Really, there is an actually interesting story here. The title could be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin"; that is just as interesting, and actually true. Almost nothing about "Cyanogenmod taken offline by developer" is true.
    • marshray 14y ago
      Looks to me like a lot of search results return cyanogenmod.com, which suggests that many bookmarks are now broken.
      • lambda 14y ago
        I'm not saying that this isn't a big deal. I'm saying that the headline is false. It implies that Cyanogenmod itself has been taken down by its developer. That is not true at all. The domain name has been taken down by the person who donated in the first place, and is now trying to make a quick buck off of it. Sure, bookmarks may break. Yes, it's an important story. But Cyanogenmod has not been taken offline by its developer.
    • myko 14y ago
      Actually from the CM post: > Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too. At one point CyanogenMod.com was down. The title could be clearer on that for sure, but I don't think it was meant to be sensationalist.
• myko 14y ago
  It isn't terribly sensationalist. Indeed a former team member is holding the domain hostage, it's not a simple transition by any means.
  • jeffool 14y ago
    Just reading the title, I was under the impression that CyanogenMod itself was no longer available from the developer, not just the website. I'm not sure if "sensationalist" is the right word, but, it wouldn't pass an editor's muster.
    • lambda 14y ago
      Yes, perhaps "sensationalist" wasn't the right term; "false" would have been better. Cyanogenmod is not offline, and it wasn't the developer who took anything offline.
    • myko 14y ago
      Good point about the old title saying 'by developer'. Probably since I knew what had happened already it didn't stand out to me, but I see how folks would think it meant Steve took it down. Again I don't think the title was meant to read that way, but yeah I agree that was not clear and the new title/direct link is much better.
      • jeffool 14y ago
        Oh I agree completely; I certainly don't think saket123 meant to mislead people at all. It was just an unfortunate choice of words causing a little bit of a dust up. Maybe now any relevant conversation can happen! So let's all go answer or up-vote philp's comment!
• notimetorelax 14y ago
  Well they want to know how many people were lied to, it is mentioned at the end.