[SciPy-Dev] the demise of SciPy Central

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi Ralf

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017, at 03:29, Ralf Gommers wrote:
> SciPy Central has been down for weeks, and barely anyone has noticed
> (2 bug reports). Almost no new content has been created the last year,
> and the use cases it tried to address are now covered pretty well by
> StackOverflow and Github/gists. A bit more discussion with Surya and
> Pauli, who have done most of the maintenance for the site the last
> couple of years, happened on
> https://github.com/scipy/SciPyCentral/issues/207.> 
> In https://github.com/scipy/scipy.org/pull/226 I've removed links to
> it from scipy.org. I propose we go ahead and merge that, and shut down
> the site completely.
There are some very useful scripts on there.  Do we have a plan for
rescuing the content?  StackOverflow seems less discoverable, as does
GitHub gists.
Stéfan

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