Maybe the act of shutting it down was just to post the blog entry saying it was shut down.
Maybe - doing the whole graceful degradation thing, like an old car, and running it into the ground until everything falls off of it... :( - Tyson Key
I'm guessing the blog post was pre-written and automatically posted and whoever was supposed to actually pull the plug before the post publishing time failed to do so. - Rochelle
Pre-written the day that Facebook bought FF. - Andy Bakun
Scheduled post made the day FB bought FF? - April Russo (FForever!)
Maybe they'll just let it run until it fails, but no future service requests (crashes, search failing) will be dealt with. - Andrew C (see frenf.it)
it would be really stupid - .mau.