So DMOZ.org has been down as far as any new submissions or any new dynamic content for some time now. I guess they had a serious system failure and are having a hard time recovering from it.
This could be a big turning point in the web, or one that goes by virtually unnoticed. DMOZ has been around for so long and is the basis for the early success of Google. If DMOZ can't recover from this may search engines that rely on it to some point will have to rethink their ranking systems. I wonder right now how much this is effecting Google. One of my sites only has any relivance at this point because it is listed in DMOZ. I haven't touched it for years. So if DMOZ goes away or isn't fixed to where Google can reference it by the time the next big update happens, it will be very interesting to see what happens to my site.
If it goes away, I really don't think it will be a bad thing. Over the years it has gotten a bit bloated. Look at my site, that I won't give the URL to, so I don't get kicked before I have too, it hasn't been updated in years. There is very little relivance left to it. I do need to update it. But I am sure that my site isn't the only site in DMOZ that is like that.
It would be sad to see it go, but if it does, I am sure someone will have a bigger and better version to take it's place.
