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I had been though it all, having joined about a year after the site first launched. I have witnessed multiple evolutions of the broader community and management. I could no longer support what I knew was coming next, so I bailed after 17 years due to the API fiasco.

Now I visit only by chance on searches and RSS subscriptions to a couple super niche subreddits that are more likely to disappear than migrate anywhere else.

Verbatim search is the only way to get useful results from Google anymore.

There’s a setting for that. It’s open invite or admin invite. Default is open invite.

Doubtful any of the participants knew that, though.

How could a generic AI written statement give you chills?

That stuff isn’t instantly done. Speed of paperwork and government can take days if not weeks. Famous people get carefully announced precisely so some joker can’t reveal it and cause chaos for the surviving family.