Trouble Updating the Wisdom of Quinn
With the most recent update to the Apple Developer Forums, it’s become pretty much impossible to update this collected wisdom in any regular way. This is why there hasn’t been an update to the archive in a while.
The main issues are:
- Apple staff no longer have individual accounts.
- The collective “Apple” accounts are not searchable.
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If you try to search for that username, it doesn’t really do what you expect either. It just searches for that string in posts, not for posts by that user.
Searching for “user: DTS Engineer Quinn” does a fairly decent job of finding results, but they are all over the place now. You can only see 15 of them at a time on the new forums as well.
It’s doubly disappointing that this goldmine is relegated to the forums and that it’s now so hard to find there.
Previously:
- Redesigned Apple Developer Forums
- Apple Developer Forums Now Have RSS
- Apple Developer Forums Can Now Monitor Threads
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Doesn't he always sign his posts with his usual "Eskimo" signature? If so, couldn't the scraper search for that, sort by date and get the posts that way?
Seems like it's possible:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/search?q=eskimo&sortBy=newest
I'd ask the author, but I see the "The-Wisdom-of-Quinn" project on Github has issues and discussions disabled. I hate "open" source projects like that, where the maintainers feel too precious to be in touch with their community.
We all deserve many thanks for Quinn - the Eskimo. He made up for a big void in Apple Developer Teck Support.
