Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151202130010/@comment-452-20151213184608

It appears to have been introduced in 2010, and staff were still mentioning it in 2013, so I wouldn't say "not long after it was introduced".

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Ad free wikis was blanked with "This program has been suspended. Please check back later" sometime between February and July 2014, then deleted 2015-05-12, but here's an archived version.

Some comments mention there being a blog post about it, but I can't find an existing one, and the deletion log has nothing related deleted around the same time.


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