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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Outdated snapshot of MDN would become useless in several months.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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