• fodor@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.

    Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.

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      5 hours ago

      Yes and the reason they state sounds a lot like AI scraping made hosting public services such a PITA that they lost motivation to continue doing it. Lots of long running projects that used to require very little maintainance are now DDOSed by these scrapers.