Darn. I wouldn’t like to get into these discussions.
I heard such complaints many times: every time a site, a forum, a project shuts down.
Usually the site/forum/project end up with a few of volunteers, and many users, often not interested in the life[1] of the project/forum/site, and sometime not very kind to those who keep the shack standing; but when the project closes a bunch of people raise their heads and have an argument against the shut down.
Now, in the case of CentOS forum, there is also the fact that, as all we know that, nowadays CentOS is another thing (irrespective of how one considers it) and the old forum no longer had any reason to exist. Not to say that also an archive need volunteers (or paid people if you think that) and resource to maintain it (there is another post explaining this aspect). And forums often contains outdated information (and it is particularly true since when CentOS 7 reached EOL, in my opinion), yeah the history, yeah the past efforts, but also migrating stuff from a platform to another is a big task that requires great effort and it needs people doing work…
I don’t know the status of the CentOS forum, I wasn’t involved (and I wasn’t neither a user), but as far as I remember, there was a pinned post which warned of the shutting down on June 30…
In short, I’m always very confused. I understand both sides’ reasons. But usually I’m on the side of those who work and have the right to decide.
It already happened, when Ask Fedora was running on Askbot and we moved to Discourse: the posts that had still a value were converted to FAQ/HowTo/documents, all the rest was lost in time, like tears in rain.
As far as I can see, RedHad still support CentOS. And apart the past drama and FUD, as you can see, such move was beneficial to the whole EL community (Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, etc.)
Sorry, but I don’t feel that way. Personally I think I have the chance to use an enterprise-level, modern and cool system that gives me the possibility to learn new things to spend in my dayjob. And in my own small way I have the opportunity to interact with cool people in a cool community.
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