this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
32 points (100.0% liked)

U.S. News

2242 readers
88 users here now

News about and pertaining to the United States and its people.

Please read what's functionally the mission statement before posting for the first time. We have a narrower definition of news than you might be accustomed to.


Guidelines for submissions:

For World News, see the News community.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] thepaperpilot@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering the reasons for shutting down, specifically that it took too many resources to keep out bad actors and keep the site as safe as possible, I don't think making it open source is a good idea.

[โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 points 1 year ago

It's always a good idea to "open" something that is "closing". We can't comprehend what others might be able to do with it.