On Sun, Jul 4, 2021 at 4:26 PM Alan Malloy <malloyal...@gmail.com> wrote:

> TL;DR: Turning off 4clojure.com by the end of July 2021
>
> Hello, 4clojure problem solvers. You've probably noticed SSL errors on
> 4clojure.com over the last week. The old decrepit system 4clojure runs on
> has finally gotten out of date enough that I can't even figure out how to
> get it recent enough that SSL certs will auto-renew anymore.
>
> In principle I could start from scratch on a new server and move 4clojure
> over, but I won't. 4clojure has been piggybacking along on a server that I
> use for personal reasons, and over the years I have less and less reason to
> keep paying for that server - it's now pretty much just 4clojure costing me
> an embarrassing amount of money every month because I haven't wanted to
> disappoint the community by shutting it down. This SSL thing is just what
> made me finally pull the trigger.
>
> I don't have a specific EOL date in mind, but sometime near the end of the
> month, since that's the billing cycle. Until that time, 4clojure still
> works, as long as you don't mind clicking through the security warnings -
> it really is still me hosting the site, and since the connection is still
> HTTPS (albeit with an invalid cert) I think that means your data is still
> safe. If you have solutions to problems you're proud of, you've still got
> some time to print them out and put them up on your refrigerator.
>
> I'm not seeking new maintainers. I'd feel uncomfortable handing over a
> database with so many email addresses and password hashes in it to anyone.
> The service has had a good run - just over a decade since the first
> release
> <https://github.com/4clojure/4clojure/commit/ff457d0b3b5f5e5a74316a1747809c25b84b3b5e>.
> I hope you enjoyed it during that time.
>

Thank you for your work maintaining it for so long, Alan! IIUC it's open
source <https://github.com/4clojure/4clojure> so if someone else feels
passionately about it being available they can always start it up again.

No hard feelings. We all have to make difficult calls about our time and
attention. :)

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