What Shutdown Radar is

A dated, sourced archive of software that shut down, reached end of life, was acquired, or changed price — recorded as the announcements happen.

Why it exists

Shutdown announcements disappear. The vendor's site goes dark, the blog post is deleted with the domain, the forum thread scrolls into a paginated archive nobody reads. Two years later, when someone inherits the system and asks "when did this actually die, and what did people move to," the answer is often genuinely unrecoverable. This archive records it while it is still there.

What it does not do

It does not recommend products. It does not rank alternatives. It does not editorialise about whether a shutdown was justified. Where people publicly named a replacement, their words are quoted and linked; that is a record of what was said, not advice.

Current scope

1,259 events archived · 96 product pages · 446 support-lifecycle references · 204 deadlines tracked in the next 12 months. Updated daily.

Who runs it

One person, with automation doing the collection. It is a young project and the archive is deliberately narrow rather than broad — see methodology for exactly what is and is not covered, and corrections for how to report an error.