The other thing is that as long as there is even one picture of the Colemak layout left in the world, it can be recreated without too much difficulty. Editing keyboard layout files is a little bit tricky and technical, but certainly doable - I use a slightly tweaked Colemak variant that I made with an OS X application called Ukulele. I started from the official file, but given a bit more time I could have started from a QWERTY layout file instead. It would be tedious to make all the extra swaps, but it would only have to be done once for each OS.

As for the site, the internet is all about finding community and/or information. It's nice that we have this site as the centre for both, but as long as there are two Colemak users on the internet there will always be a community.

He never said that - it's just a bad dream jc had.  ;)  Jc - look what you've done: Now we're putting out fires here.

Thing is: I don't think that the current Colemak effort costs much, neither time nor money. Sure, if you want to donate a sum to Shai you should most definitely do so to motivate him and show your appreciation and help towards the site bills(?) - but it's a low-effort sort of thing these days I'm sure! Shai did a massive amount of work to create Colemak, but now he's the 'passive creator' for the most part. So why would he shut down anything?

And Colemak has taken on life by now. I wouldn't stop, even if Shai were to pull the plug because aliens mind-controlled him to do it. It'd be harder to meet up and have a thriving Colemak community for a while, but then there'd be a new site somewhere and it'd go on. Colemak shall live! Korivak and simonh said it well.

And there was much rejoicing!

They are right, Colemak is here to stay.  But maybe you feel like we could be doing more; like there should be more news of Colemak's rising fame, etc.  Perhaps Colemak users who are interested should form a kind of advocacy project, to try to do things like:  increase Colemak's notability so it can have a Wikipedia article; make sure the best ways to install it for all implementations are well-documented; find other venues to get the word out to interested people to this modern alternative to QWERTY.  etc.

I've got a plan, and I'll take it slow.  I have to learn my Wikipedias first.  But we'll see if it helps.  Give me a couple weeks.

if this was an enterprise by a for-profit company maybe ...

what's beta actually mean here if it works ? 

Google is famous for having products in perpetual beta.

note:  number of monthly unique visitors to colemak.com is now 4-5 x what it was a year ago.

Thank you Shai for the reassurance. Sadly I try to tell people about Colemak but most don't care to switch :-(

Everytime Shai makes an appearance.. its always awesome to see.