I went to Luc Devroye's 'On snot and fonts' the other day & saw the sentence "These pages were permanently closed on May 6, 2022" near the top of the main page - does anyone here know anything about this?

Links still work. I'm guessing it means the pages will no longer be updated?

Wow, that's quite sad.
Luc's website was a gold mine for everything font related.
Probably time for retirement. Farewell Luc, have fun!

I thought the site would go on forever...
If the site will be closed, it will be reincarnated at the Wayback Machine

Luc hosts my home page, and we exchange e-mails regularly. I've asked him for an explanation, and I'll post in this thread after his reply.

The text below is quoted directly from Luc's e-mail reply to me:


Yes, the closure will be permanent,
but the web site will probably remain up for a long time.
I ceased all updates---it's over as far as my outing into the world of fonts
is concerned.

@metaphasebrothel - many thanks for letting me know.