Pour one out for MacInTouch →

Ric Ford:

Website traffic is overwhelmingly dominated now by “bots” executing sophisticated cyberattacks and sucking up every scrap of content; only a tiny fraction of our traffic comes from legitimate human visitors. Unfortunately, these rampant and rising abuses and attacks drive rising server costs, and there’s no practical way to stop them — they originate from networks at Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Tencent, Russia, hosting companies, proxies, and limitless other networks everywhere in the world.

I personally need to stop and take a break for a while to re-assess priorities and approaches going forward. I’m putting macintouch.com on pause in an attempt to stem the rising costs, but I’ll note that tidbits.com offers an alternative with similar history and values, and I hope to provide occasional updates.

He can sugar coat it with the vague hope of future updates, but the writing is on the wall. MacInTouch began as a print journal in 1985, and the website launched in 1994. It has been a resource I turn to since I first began using the Mac in 2002.