Tech
Apple is shuttering its 28-year-old online community forum
- Newsrooms
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 0 reports
- Momentum
- Steady
1 in the 3 before
Cooling
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
Against the past week
More newsrooms than 96% of the past week’s 3930 stories, and number 8 of 313 in Tech.
1File photo: Apple Park
As of Tuesday, new forum posts cannot be made to Apple's Support Community Forums and the entire website will be closed on November 20. Apple did not provide a reason for the closure. The likely reason for closing the forums is due to the emergence of communities like Reddit and Discord on top of L
Ars Technica didn’t include a summary, so this is AppleInsider’s, from its report on the same story.3
The story so far
9 newsroomsCooling- Reports
- 10
- Newsrooms and sources
- 9
- Last 3 hours
- 0
Cooling: well below its busiest stretch (0 in the last three hours, 1 in the three before).
First with it: 9to5Mac, 28 min before anyone else.
Reported by 9 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
- Newsrooms
- 9
- Over
- 14.3 hr
- To three newsrooms
- 1 hr
| Time | Newsroom | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 1:49pm AEDT | 9to5Mac | 1 |
| 2:17pm AEDT | AppleInsider | 2 |
| 2:50pm AEDT | MacRumors | 3 |
| 9:52pm AEDT | Engadget | 4 |
| 11:19pm AEDT | The Verge | 5 |
| 11:26pm AEDT | TechRadar | 6 |
| 11:43pm AEDT | The Register | 7 |
| 1:02am AEDT | Neowin | 8 |
| 4:04am AEDT | Ars Technica | 9 |
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