old Tektronix forum (https://forum.tek.com/) has been dead

[squadchannel]

Now(Dec/12/2024), try to access the old Tek forum(phpBB based, forum.tek.com), will be redirected to totally useless new TekTalk.
according to WaybackMachine, it appears to remain as of July; it has already changed as of October.

I should have backed up.
What did you do, Tek? WHYYYYYYY

[coromonadalix]

all good things come to and end ... 

[fenugrec]

What a pain. Back when they started threatening to "upgrade" and close the old site, I had exchanged a few emails with one of their online-community-managers or whatever, arguing to keep the old site around, at least as a read-only archive. I will contact them again , I recommend multiple people do the same. Hopefully they didn't perma-delete everything yet.

I had also tried real hard to wget / curl / scrape the old forum, but they had very aggressive clownflare settings that kept denying everything. Wasted a bunch of time for no result.

[EEVblog]

Did they copy the old posts over?

Keysight forum just shut down entirely:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/keysight-community-forums-discontinued/

[fenugrec]

Did they copy the old posts over?

AFAIK no. They're barely giving signs of life on the new forum at all, and search is mostly broken. I have not received replies to any direct inquiries either.

[TERRA Operative]

The cynic in me is certain Tek want their new forum to fail so they can justify removing it entirely....

[coppercone2]

I guess this is a good reason why you should not give corporate documents for free, it looks like they will back it up and try to sell it to people. I think the general wisdom would be to self publish

Some greedy dick saw it as a resource he can steal.

Basically the same old advice : CC your valuable emails.

Does anyone think that this means there is less innovation going on, and instead its a totally different group of people that are focusing on making money in a entirely different way then the company is known for ? I wonder if this all started with R&D budget cuts.