23 points tech234a 1 hour ago 12 comments

bradknowles 1 hour ago | parent

Has anyone heard the real reason for this?

Does anyone know of any good alternatives that actually work? And please don’t suggest Reddit.

armchairhacker 48 minutes ago | parent

LLMs. I’d be surprised if there’s a tech support problem they can’t solve. If so, it’s probably so interesting you can write a blog post about it and/or post it to HN.

shye 43 minutes ago | parent

For questions about Apple products, I've often had multiple models answer by websearching discussions.apple.com.

BatchJob 4 minutes ago | parent

LLMs are great at hallucinating menu options that dont exist and entire features that dont exist just to get to the end. Have fun with that.

ButlerianJihad 48 minutes ago | parent

Siri

roody15 44 minutes ago | parent

Have worked with apple machines for over 20 years and have found little to no good information on this website. (Manage 1100 Apple devices)

speedylight 58 minutes ago | parent

Relative to profits, this forum costs Apple pennies to run what the hell :(

wafflebot 48 minutes ago | parent

My gosh I don't remember the last time I found anything useful on there. It feels like every response is someone telling OP that Apple doesn't read those forums, and directing them how to file feedback. Sad though to see Apple pull further away from their community.

ethanbezz 40 minutes ago | parent

> I don't remember the last time I found anything useful on there.

Ditto. I'm sure it was a valuable resource during the earlier years of Apple when they were a much smaller company with a much smaller community of users, but those days are long gone.

ulfw 35 minutes ago | parent

Link doesn't work, like everything Apple

Is this the useless thing where you posted bugs and Apple ignored you?

thraway3837 20 minutes ago | parent

Link works just fine for those wondering if it's down already.

I'm glad they are shutting this down, I hope the also switch off the site entirely so search engines don't link to it. It was mostly junk with people posting anecdotal recipes for making things work. It may have been a useful place to find information maybe 15 years ago, but the SNR ratio even then was bad. Good riddance.

mdotk 10 minutes ago | parent

It's always been completely useless anyway. Never, EVER, got an answer from it.