Post by @nixCraft@mastodon.social

2026-11-11 13:50 UTC

Apple is closing down its The Apple Support Community forum permanently on November 20, 2026. Starting today, the site will no longer accept new posts and is available in a read-only state. Why? I wonder if this is another victim of LLMs https://discussions.apple.com/welcome Getting rid of independent web/forum/blog for Chatbots is not a good solution in a long run for open web.

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@mekhos@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 13:58

@nixCraft@mastodon.social maybe LLMs will die from huffing too much of their own fumes and we will go back to arranging meetings on community noticeboards with like-minded people.

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@rocketsoup@mastodon.social 2026-11-11 20:08

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Aw man, I will miss the long dormant threads from years ago about unfixed Apple bugs I’m still encountering today

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@realcainmosni@mastodon.me.uk 2026-11-12 01:49

@nixCraft@mastodon.social The "open web" is already dead. People just don't realise it yet. I'm calling it now: under web 4.0 there will be no major generic web sites, and the browser's principal function will be to download and install a site's dedicated application and give it the freedom to mine the device and offload as much of the site processing costs onto the user as it can.

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