Who are "they" and what is "it" here?

Oops, I reworded my question and removed the antecedents.

"It" is the benchmarks game and "they" are the maintainers of the benchmarks game.

I remember that too, then suddenly it reappeared. My guess it caused too many flamewars and anger at the maintainer.

Shutting what down?

The debian benchmarks website. It was called benchmarkgame.alioth.com earlier if I recall correctly.

I didn’t even realise the domain was different. Been so many years since I’ve seen this site I had no idea it was gone.

Alioth was the name of a machine running FusionForge. Debian replaced it with "Salsa" that's running GitLab. The benchmarks game is hosted in this repository: https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame

But (without intending to spread unsubstantiated rumor) it seems like it's temporarily unmaintained at the moment:

- in the README.md there is some complaint about being difficult to reboot into a Linux dual-boot, maybe the measurements+website were being published manually

- CI yml seems incomplete

- Some very strange issues like https://salsa.debian.org/benchmarksgame-team/benchmarksgame/...

That issue appears to be someone who was upset with the methodology of the benchmarks and the delay in accepting his/her programs so they resorted to repeatedly changing the title of one their issues.

> … without intending to spread unsubstantiated rumor…

So don't :-)

> … difficult to reboot into a Linux dual-boot…

That's likely to be a problem soon after 1st September.

> CI yml seems incomplete

In what way? "This GitLab CI configuration is valid."

> Some very strange issues like…

What else specifically?

This is really ghetto. Why does Debian allow it on their domain?

You just described most subsites under the Debian domain.