What's up with Chefmoz.org ?

rcontrera

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OK ... it has been down for over a year. Can we say that it is a dead duck and the powers that be don't really care about that project anymore?
 

pvgool

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The powers still care.
But they have limited resources available and those have been spend on DMOZ.
 

Sparky

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The site came up for me just now. Looks good. :)

It may look good, but it's an obsolete version from 2007. All data added after 2007 (representing literally thousands of person-hours) has been lost.

Most important, the site isn't functional. You can see an existing (i.e., 2007) restaurant listing; however, you can't add a restaurant, add a review, update restaurant information, etc., etc., etc.

I'm extremely ticked because it displays some personal information that I intentionally deleted; it got put back when the site reverted to the 2007 data, and there seems to be nobody I can contact to get it removed. I'm about ready to send a cease and desist letter to AOL.
 

lisagirl

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Hi all:

I'm sorry to say that we've confirmed that ChefMoz is dead. Because AOL has limited resources, they chose to devote them all to dmoz.org rather than chefmoz.org, which is a sensible though very sad decision.

The only thing they could say was that perhaps at some point they might have the resources to develop it, but that sounds like a long shot.

I guess this doesn't come as much of a surprise, considering it's been so long already that we've been unable to do anything. But hearing it confirmed is still hard. :(
 

windharp

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Not unexpected, but still sad to hear that. *Off to remove a few chevmoz tools form his server*
 
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