Re: Wolfram support website documents deleted
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- Subject: [mg98394] Re: Wolfram support website documents deleted
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Bob F wrote: > It appears that Wolfram has recently redesigned the > support.wolfram.com website and a lot of my links are toast. I called > Wolfram support and they said that a lot of the older information has > been removed or consolidated, or ???. > > Wow, I was really floored that so much information was just totally > removed and no longer accessible to Mathematica users who try to look > up information. Has anyone else, noticed having problems looking up > things on Wolfram's support web site? Was there any sort of > announcement that this was going to or had happened? > > Gosh, disk space is so cheap these days - why would such a valuable > resource to the Mathematica user community be trashed? > > Does anyone else feel badly about this? Please let Wolfram know how > you feel if you do. > > -Bob > I really worry that the WRI documentation team has become obsessed with form over substance. I guess they would say that the information they removed related to earlier versions - but a lot of it was valuable, and their modern documentation is often too vague or incomplete - which is why people go and mine the old stuff - most of which is still valid. You might want to try GOOGLEing your favourite lost information and selecting the cached version (which usually hangs about for a little while) - then save it for future reference! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk