The Web is Dying, Sites Must Evolve or Die Too
It just keeps going down. This was charted a few days ago* (many active domains are just bots and the same it true for traffic):
THE wiki was sort of "hibernated" in read-only mode when we made this site read-only, i.e. no PHP at the back end and no open-ended requests with parameters (except the requested URL). This results in vastly better performance, which in turn benefits readers (no time wasted waiting for pages to load). The wiki is complete, we did not lose anything, and all pages can be reproduced directly from the database snapshot (it's a reproducible process).
The pages created in the wiki will still be improved over time, but the process won't be the same. A wiki that opens itself to everyone suffers from vandalism and spam - i.e. a massive waste of time. The timeline for overhaul isn't set in stone, but next month around Christmas there will be plenty of time available. Updated are well overdue.
Several weeks ago we finished migrating all the old pages (by "migrating" we mean exporting from the databases to static pages). In the future we should be able to produce more new pages than in past years, owing to various efficiencies. The main peril is the lack of topics, due to dying media.
We don't envision the Web making a "comeback". Over time the Web is being abandoned in favour of DRM, "webapps" (proprietary), and just about everything the "Open Web" was meant to replace. Nowadays when things become "Web-based" it sometimes means more hostile and less open than before. █
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* More than twenty million sites vanished from the Web in the past 6 months. The net "gain" was -20 million or more, so that might mean 10 million new sites, 30+ million dead sites.