> Ward Cunningham decided to close c2 to new material in part because he got tired of battling a determined vandal who was all bent out of shape over grammer and spailing
It's honestly pretty upsetting that one vandal is enough to ruin one of the oldest and most significant institutions on the web for everybody.
Anyone is welcome to restart it. I'm sure he'd give you the raw data files & source code if you asked. (There might already be a copy on github.)
I think it has value as a snapshot archive as well. The article on extreme programming would look quite different today.
The reworked version doesn't show the original indentation of discussion trees, making it harder to read. All bullet points have been flattened to one level, compared to the the original, which showed many levels.
C2 was interesting in that software developers and IT professionals tried to categorize debates and disagreements over software engineering issues. Almost nothing was ever settled, but you got different perspectives. For example, is the "best" software about maximizing economics & psychology (human grokking), or symbolic parsimony? Is it better to hire 5 geniuses or 10 ordinary engineers?