popcon.ubuntu.com gone?

[Romain Couturat]

On 10/10/2022 10:10, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'd like to ask what happened to popcon.ubuntu.com, that is now showing
> the default nginx page instead of any useful data.
> 
> Also, https://popcon.ubuntu.com/all-popcon-results.txt.gz is a text file
> with "Thanks!" in it, rather than containing anything...
> 
> 
> Was the service disabled at some point?
> 
> 
Hi,
yes, as it wasn't in usage [1], popcon service was recently decommissioned [2].
So that the remaining clients don't get an error, it's been replaced by a stub that effectively does nothing.
Feel free to comment on the launchpad bug.

Thanks

[1] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/ubuntu-popularity-contest-removed
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/popularity-contest/+bug/1990247