#sitedeath — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sitedeath, aggregated by home.social.
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Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Digital History at University of Houston: Important update: Please read this announcement.. “After nearly 25 years of service to students and educators worldwide, Digital History will cease operation on May 31, 2026…. This resource has served millions of users, providing free, reliable content as an alternative to expensive textbooks. However, maintaining the site now requires extensive […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/12/important-update-please-read-this-announcement-digital-history-at-university-of-houston/ -
Gizmodo: VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow. “This week, Rec Room, a popular VR meeting place and metaverse of sorts, announced that it would be shutting down on June 1. The reason? Business, of course.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/04/gizmodo-vr-just-took-another-massive-body-blow/ -
Arkansas Times: New group aims to keep PBS programming in Arkansas. “Friends of Arkansas PBS, a newly formed, citizen-led group that hopes to preserve programming from the national Public Broadcasting Service in Arkansas, is hosting its first talk on Thursday. Former Arkansas First Ladies Barbara Pryor and Gay White will serve as honorary co-chairs and are urging people to join, according to a […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/17/arkansas-times-new-group-aims-to-keep-pbs-programming-in-arkansas/ -
Spotted in my email alerts, I think: AppSumo Graveyard. “Inspired by Google Graveyard. We track every AppSumo product that shut down, pivoted, or abandoned its LTD users.” Not much here yet, looks like it just launched.
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/15/appsumo-graveyard/ -
CoinDesk: One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down. “Nifty Gateway, an NFT platform, will shut down on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode, allowing users one month to move their NFTs and funds. The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/coindesk-one-of-the-oldest-nft-trading-platform-which-facilitated-over-300-million-in-sales-at-its-peak-shuts-down/ -
CoinDesk: One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down. “Nifty Gateway, an NFT platform, will shut down on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode, allowing users one month to move their NFTs and funds. The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/coindesk-one-of-the-oldest-nft-trading-platform-which-facilitated-over-300-million-in-sales-at-its-peak-shuts-down/ -
CoinDesk: One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down. “Nifty Gateway, an NFT platform, will shut down on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode, allowing users one month to move their NFTs and funds. The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/coindesk-one-of-the-oldest-nft-trading-platform-which-facilitated-over-300-million-in-sales-at-its-peak-shuts-down/ -
CoinDesk: One of the oldest NFT trading platform which facilitated over $300 million in sales at its peak shuts down. “Nifty Gateway, an NFT platform, will shut down on February 23, 2026, and has entered withdrawal-only mode, allowing users one month to move their NFTs and funds. The platform, which once facilitated over $300 million in sales, had shifted its focus to building onchain creative […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/26/coindesk-one-of-the-oldest-nft-trading-platform-which-facilitated-over-300-million-in-sales-at-its-peak-shuts-down/ -
Mashable: In Memoriam: All the tech that died in 2025. “Some of the entries on our in memorium list lived long, fruitful lives and contributed lasting legacies to the ever-evolving technology space. (RIP, Skype.) Others were flash-in-the-pan features or straight-up flops (we’re looking at you, Humane AI Pin), destined to meet an early death. Regardless, they’re all worthy of remembering for the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/05/in-memoriam-all-the-tech-that-died-in-2025-mashable/ -
Engadget: The largest illegal sports streaming service has been shut down after sting operation. “The sports broadcasting piracy network Streameast has been shut down after it was investigated for a year by a US-based anti-piracy group. Streameast is the largest illegal sports streaming platform in the world, and while active it offered its users free access to 80 unauthorised domains.”
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Everything Typepad: Typepad is shutting down. “After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated. Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content.” Get information on exporting […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/30/everything-typepad-typepad-is-shutting-down/
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Everything Typepad: Typepad is shutting down. “After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated. Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content.” Get information on exporting […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/30/everything-typepad-typepad-is-shutting-down/
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Android Authority: Google backpedals on plans to totally kill this legacy service. “Google has updated the blog post where it announced the shutdown of Google URL Shortener. In the update, the Mountain View-based firm states that it has reconsidered discontinuing support for all goo.gl URLs. Despite claiming earlier that 99% of these links had no activity in June, Google says it received […]
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The Verge: News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline. “The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has ‘successfully secured’ the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online.” If you’re running into lots of paywalls, check out my article on getting around them. My methods don’t involve hopping paywalls but […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/the-verge-news-publishers-take-paywall-blocker-12ft-io-offline/
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PC World: Microsoft shuts down website for Windows themes and desktop wallpapers . “Microsoft plans to soon remove its official web page for Windows themes and desktop wallpapers. The company has not given an exact date for when this will happen. The site, which Microsoft says is outdated, has previously offered visitors downloadable theme packs for both Windows 10 and Windows 11.”