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Better is relative. They could have just iced the site and killed their email, which i hear is not a rare course to take. How many days notice equates to appro
by classicsnoot 12y ago
Better is relative. They could have just iced the site and killed their email, which i hear is not a rare course to take.
How many days notice equates to appropriate when killing the hopes and dreams of an0n users?
- sp332 12y agoHow about a month? How about making sure that users can log in and download their own data whenever they want, even if the rest of the site doesn't work? How about uploading public posts to the Internet Archive?
- classicsnoot 12y agoSounds ok, but think about the pain of that for the creators? not to mention continuing costs. I do not think there is a perfect answer, but maybe the 'community' should come up with a largely agreed upon time and call it something descriptive and recognizable...
- sp332 12y agoNeither of those things sounded that painful to me. I just mean you don't have to maintain the full site functionality (and associated cost), because the goal is just to make the data available.
- classicsnoot 12y agoIf i had a site, and i knew people loved it, just not enough, then killing it would bring me pain. but that is emotional and subjective.
- sp332 12y agoOh sure, but imagine how all the people providing their content to your site would feel about you deleting their content!
- classicsnoot 12y agoIndeed. So there has to be a way to fairly and logically kill something someone presumably loves whilst also making sure original content is protected. Let's get on this everyone has some spare time.
- Octplane 12y agoWe would have loved to be able to provide a month or even more of sunset. Unfortunately, everything was tied to a complex internal schedule which shifted the sunset too much. Today is the earlier we could do and even so, we had to provision the cost of the platform to make it available "that long". Sorry for that.
- sp332 12y agoSorry for the ignorant question, but is the notice localized and translated into other languages? You seem to have a lot of non-English-speaking contributors.
- Octplane 12y agoOur service supports 10 languages and every user has received an email about the shutdown in its configured language.