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It seems that the "moved online" part is less about FTP and more about the "closed, membership-only" part.

Colloquially, "online" pretty much means "available online", and data that is on systems technically connected to internet but accessible only to a few people isn't considered available online.



I get that. The wording was not misleading or ambiguous.

In my job, I have to deal with network problems of various kinds from time to time, and at the network layer, "online" has a specific meaning (Okay, actually several, depending on context), and that was what my brain came up with first.

Like I said, I was nitpicking.




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