We recognize that many of you have trusted us to power large parts of your online presence, and to caretake your important data. Suddenly discontinuing any of our services would negatively impact you. To provide some reassurance, 4d2 dot org is announcing a 3-month sunset policy for services. Going forward, if we intend to discontinue any service, we will provide 3 months’ notice before doing so. During this notice period, the service will remain available.

If we plan to discontinue a service, we’ll post notice here, on our home page, and whenever possible within the service itself.

This policy applies to all existing services listed on our home page. Any new services will be clearly marked as “beta” until they fall under the policy.

Separately, I’m setting aside a contingency fund to cover 3 months of 4d2 dot org’s current operations. Since I provide 97% of our funding, this ensures that 4d2 dot org can be gracefully wound down if I suddenly become unable to fund our operations at all.