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Yeah, but this is not their data, it belongs to their users. It would have been better to communicate before now.

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?

How 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?

Sounds 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...

Neither 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.

If 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.

Oh sure, but imagine how all the people providing their content to your site would feel about you deleting their content!

Indeed. 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.

We 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.

Sorry 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.

Our service supports 10 languages and every user has received an email about the shutdown in its configured language.

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