Joomla.org: the lost sites

In recent months, the offical joomla.org site has undergone some major changes. Unfortunately, two extremely valuable resources have disappeared, and there aren't many signs that they're coming back in some way.

news.joomla.org

The new community.joomla.org was opened a little while ago, as a resource where all contributors of the Joomla project (documentors, moderators, developers, ...) have a blog to share information. That's a great initiative, but unfortunately the old news.joomla.org had to make way (it's available, but there are no links to it and it hasn't been updated for two months). This site was a place where anybody could post Joomla! related news. I always felt this was a great way of keeping an eye on what's going on in the community. Joomla!  is not only about the people who contribute directly to the project itself, but also about everybody else, be it (commercial or other) extension developers, template developers, professional integrators, book or tutorial authors, users, ... Certainly a place can be provided at community.joomla.org where everybody can post, making it a true community resource.

dev.joomla.org

More importantly, the old dev.joomla.org was replaced by docs.joomla.org and developer.joomla.org. Unfortunately a lot of valuable information is gone:

• The developer wiki is still available, but it is no longer reachable if you don't have the link. It contains a lot of documentation for developers, including some of my own contributions which I'd hate to get lost. Only a very small part has moved to docs.joomla.org, and is hard to find there.
• The old developer blogs were very actively posted on during the development of Joomla! 1.5. Whenever something new was introduced in the framework, it was posted there, along with how to use it and why it was the way it was. These old blog posts are no longer reachable.

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