Running and upgrading any site has a non-trivial amount of work, especially if it has any sort of dynamic content or CMS.
What would you propose a person or company do if they want to stop running a popular site (ie, not fund it going forward), but still keep the content up, if without any changes?
This keeps happening - older tech sites like https://techreport.com also got sold off and all the new publishing is sensationalist/cryptoscam crap.
What we need is a benevolent crap-free way to just freeze old sites in place, with all the URLs intact, and all the hosting paid for...
What would you propose a person or company do if they want to stop running a popular site (ie, not fund it going forward), but still keep the content up, if without any changes?
This keeps happening - older tech sites like https://techreport.com also got sold off and all the new publishing is sensationalist/cryptoscam crap.
What we need is a benevolent crap-free way to just freeze old sites in place, with all the URLs intact, and all the hosting paid for...