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Comment by jdashg | Hacker News Reader

"entire MDN writers team" is a really important distinction, given the misunderstandings in comments here and elsewhere.

It's tragic, but it doesn't mean MDN is going away.

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It means MDN as we know it will slowly be going away. One of the important things MDN and Mozilla's maintaining of it was the promoting of standards and Firefox's implemdntation of them. With Mozilla ceasing to maintain this it means that Firefox will be seen less as a leader in developing and defining standards.

I see this as either a temporary tighening of the belt for efficiency during tough times or a change in direction of focus.

What’s the difference? Who is going to continue writing?

It's a big difference! People on HN have really come out of the woodwork in a panic with plans to rehost them under the assumption it's getting shut down.

Paying for good dedicated writers is unfortunately expensive, but merely hosting MDN isn't, and it isn't going anywhere.

Wikipedia still gets updated without core writers, but Mozilla's unrepaid charity of producing quality webdev documents for Chrome users is at an end.

Mozilla unrepaid charity does a large number of projects many times less useful than MDN. At the same time, MDN is perfectly aligned with Mozilla declared mission of making a better internet.

> hosting MDN

Outdated snapshot of MDN would become useless in several months.

Google, Microsoft and Samsung earlier committed to collaborate on MDN, so Google, Microsoft, Samsung and anyone else as MDN is publically editable.

Are you sure this will be standard documentation? Or Google Chrome Spyware documentation? Become MS and Google both are using same thing with different names

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