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2014

2015


– , posterity, first capture in internet archive wayback machine:
non-authenticated, not unlimited

https://developer.apple.com/devforums/ states:

– so, example, searches of forum content not performed without authentication.

limitations aside, guess apple quietly decided make content available public whilst focus on wwdc.

perceived confidentiality

@ https://developer.apple.com/support/forums/ under be topical:

some of published content may inconsistent suggestion, , contributors' perceptions of part 6 of apple developer forums 
participation agreement (ea1279, 2015-06-02). apparent inconsistency, there's apple developer program access issue (case 822736071).

openness

before posting this, refrained few hours. personal e-mail @ apple, coupled report of access issue (the inconsistency).

found https://twitter.com/olebegemann/status/608186517295665152 – more thirty-six hours ago , retweeted more hundred people – , later yesterday, wwdc 2015: interesting tidbits , links – macstories, it's reasonable assume of openness both:
  • intended apple; and
  • known authors posts published
– there is encouragement use pseudonym, or words effect.
 

i wonder whether contributors aware of degrees of publicity.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/3330#5657 wondered publicly indexable content; responded:

that response, verbatim, publicly indexed :)

in topic elsewhere, 1 of threads resulted in a question beta/pre-release forum, thread appears ends link page apple advises:

– unless i'm missing something, no group realisation 5 seed spaces below, forum content visible public, indexed google , on:
  • ios 8.4 beta
  • ios 9 beta
  • os x 10.10.4 beta
  • os x 10.11 beta
  • watchos 2 beta.
https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/9879#9879 there's realisation:

 


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