‘Apple Support Community’ Permanently Closing on November 20

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors: Apple today announced that the long-running Apple Support Community discussion forums will be permanently closing on Friday, November 20. Effectively immediately, the Apple Support Community forums are in a read-only state, with new posts no longer being accepted. The final message posted to the site appears to have been submitted at 5:49 p.m. Pacific Time today. I saw a few posts about this last night and my initial thought was that this was a shame, but then thought about where I actually go for Apple-related help. I’ve found threads on Apple’s Support Community forums in search results and they help confirm that an issue might be more common, but often go unresolved and provide little direction—the MacRumors Forums and MacInTouch, as well as various Reddit threads often are more useful. I think the older iteration before 2011 was much more useful for me. I’m guessing that Apple sees this as more of a liability than an asset—when something controversial…

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