My gosh I don't remember the last time I found anything useful on there. It feels like every response is someone telling OP that Apple doesn't read those forums, and directing them how to file feedback. Sad though to see Apple pull further away from their community.

It's always been completely useless anyway. Never, EVER, got an answer from it.

Has anyone heard the real reason for this?

Does anyone know of any good alternatives that actually work? And please don’t suggest Reddit.

Relative to profits, this forum costs Apple pennies to run what the hell :(

I wonder if there's a market for a public bug tracker to track things in say, Microsoft Teams, that then goes and doxxes the person at the company who's on the team that could actually fix it. Or trying to get hired by that company so you can go in and fix that bug and then quit.

There are so many people who have their identities wrapped in that forum… just look at their post signature blocks.

> We want to thank the community members who have contributed their time and expertise to help others with their Apple products.

Why even offer this hollow patronizing comment?

If you want to thank them, actually thank them with some token of appreciation other than a single, anonymous passive-voice remark in an announcement banner when they go to login to help others.

Link works just fine for those wondering if it's down already.

I'm glad they are shutting this down, I hope the also switch off the site entirely so search engines don't link to it. It was mostly junk with people posting anecdotal recipes for making things work. It may have been a useful place to find information maybe 15 years ago, but the SNR ratio even then was bad. Good riddance.

Link doesn't work, like everything Apple

Is this the useless thing where you posted bugs and Apple ignored you?