The old Tavern is an invaluable trove of DCSS history and discussion. It covered over a decade of game design discussions and earnest ideas, YASD/YAVP analyses, philosophy posts, memes, not to mention the private messages between users. (Importantly to me, it had a version-by-version justification of the cuts, removals and other questionable choices the development team made, as back then there was a big idea of them all being thoroughly reasoned and justified. Looking at the state DCSS is in right now, and the spirit of some of the latest additions, it feels like even this level of self-awareness has been lost.)
After migrating to the Tavern 2.0, it’s been put to read only. It was implied things are to stay this way, with Advil linking to the old tavern in threads asking about it, and no word of it being due for a complete removal. (And for reasons noted above, such a removal, as opposed to keeping it in an archival state, would be a crime against DCSS history and community regardless of whether there was an advance warning; as open-source software developers, you must be well aware with the importance of information preservation. Still, a warning would’ve at least allowed people to make sure there’s a complete offline/off-site archive left to peruse.)
So, the question: is the lack of the old Tavern by its old address a temporary issue? Has it changed address? (Really hoping for one of those.) Or is there something going on that can, and should be, spoken out against?