MacDesktops: 'Declaring victory, moving on'

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MacDesktops: ‘Declaring victory, moving on’

8 September 2011 1,513 views 3 Comments

Most long time Mac users can list a dozen or so websites that defined the platform online in the ’90s. Some of them, like MacCentral, have passed into history, while others have soldiered on. Although MacDesktops.com isn’t shutting down, site founder Ryan Walker won’t be updating the go to source for Mac desktop images anymore:

For the first decade, I was excited to be providing this service. For the past couple of years, I’ve been phoning it in. Submissions have dropped off precipitously over the past two years. I lost my statistics server for the site at least 5 years ago and never replaced it, so I don’t even know how many of you still visit. I expect that you number several thousand now compared to hundreds of thousands back around the turn of the century.

Thereupon, Walker stopped taking image submissions back on July 29 and the last two new images will appear on MacDesktops.com on October 15. However, the site will remain up as an archive.

“Well folks, it is time for me to declare victory and move on,” quips Walker.

The times they are a changin’…

What’s your take?

3 Comments »

Doc said:

I have used this site for more than a decade and loved the creative sharing of Mac users like myself. When the column view became my Finder view of choice, my desktop was nearly always completely covered. So for me the desktop picture has become much less noticed.

Thanks MacDesktopo.com for your many years of generous service.

# 8 September 2011 at 7:35 pm

clarus said:

Mac Desktops has long offered excellent photos and art. I enjoyed the site for years, but recently I’ve started using my own photos as desktop backgrounds. I suspect millions of others have done the same.

# 9 September 2011 at 12:50 am

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