{"id":20951,"date":"2018-03-27T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=20951"},"modified":"2018-03-27T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T15:35:08","slug":"macintouch-note-to-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/macintouch-note-to-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"MacInTouch Note to Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macintouch.com\/\">Ric Ford<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/macintouch.com\/\">\n<p>The revenue that used to sustain MacInTouch has dropped below a viable business minimum, while a plethora of other websites, operating under different business and security models, produces constant Apple news, reviews and commentary.<\/p>\n<p>The MacInTouch Discussions forum is unique, as far as I know, but it&rsquo;s also unsustainably labor-intensive, and there&rsquo;s no way around that in its current incarnation.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, my plan is to continue running MacInTouch Discussions and home\/news pages at a reduced intensity for a little longer.  But, before long, it will be time for a change - a sabbatical, a new blog, research, development, or something else &#x2013; I&rsquo;m not quite sure what yet, but I expect macintouch.com to continue in some form.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2018\/03\/macintouch-in-twilight.html\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2018\/03\/macintouch-in-twilight.html\"><p>Ric passed on RSS and blogs and feeds and permalinks. For a year or two he tried to get permalinks working &mdash; which made Macintouch potentially tweetable. Recently those went away, so I wasn&rsquo;t surprised by today&rsquo;s announcement &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The site has often been frustrating for technical reasons like this, but it&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacInTouch\">long<\/a> been a unique and valuable resource. My thanks to Ford for all of his work, and I hope that he&rsquo;s able to find a way to continue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ric Ford: The revenue that used to sustain MacInTouch has dropped below a viable business minimum, while a plethora of other websites, operating under different business and security models, produces constant Apple news, reviews and commentary. The MacInTouch Discussions forum is unique, as far as I know, but it&rsquo;s also unsustainably labor-intensive, and there&rsquo;s no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101,31,30,994,96],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-ios","tag-mac","tag-media","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20952,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions\/20952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}