Sensationalist because it is false, and misleads you in a way that makes you believe this is a bigger deal than it actually is.
Nothing is offline. All that has changed is the domain. "Cyanogenmod" is not offline. "cyanogenmod.com" is offline, but everything that was there is at "cyanogenmod.org" so even saying "cyanogenmod.com is offline" would be misleading.
Also, the "taken offline by developer" part is patently false. The website was taken offline by someone who donated the domain name, and is now using it to try and make affiliate deals and extort the developer.
Really, there is an actually interesting story here. The title could be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin"; that is just as interesting, and actually true. Almost nothing about "Cyanogenmod taken offline by developer" is true.
> Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too.
At one point CyanogenMod.com was down. The title could be clearer on that for sure, but I don't think it was meant to be sensationalist.
I'm not saying that this isn't a big deal. I'm saying that the headline is false. It implies that Cyanogenmod itself has been taken down by its developer. That is not true at all. The domain name has been taken down by the person who donated in the first place, and is now trying to make a quick buck off of it.
Sure, bookmarks may break. Yes, it's an important story. But Cyanogenmod has not been taken offline by its developer.
Nothing is offline. All that has changed is the domain. "Cyanogenmod" is not offline. "cyanogenmod.com" is offline, but everything that was there is at "cyanogenmod.org" so even saying "cyanogenmod.com is offline" would be misleading.
Also, the "taken offline by developer" part is patently false. The website was taken offline by someone who donated the domain name, and is now using it to try and make affiliate deals and extort the developer.
Really, there is an actually interesting story here. The title could be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin"; that is just as interesting, and actually true. Almost nothing about "Cyanogenmod taken offline by developer" is true.