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[Kayin]

I'm considering shutting down the forums here. The forums have been nothing but a glorified hangout for a few of you for awhile. Now as time goes on they get more and more neglected and potentially more and more of a security vulnerability. Most activity seems to be replaced by the IWBTG discord.

So how about it? Who actually cares? I don't plan on making a decision any time soon but and I'd look into ways to archive the forum safely if I did shut it down. Something to think about.

[Kayin]

Considering the only response was someone who got banned for ban evading my current plan unless you guys tell me to stop is to archive the board at the end of the year.

[DraconicDescendant]

Honestly, the longer this place just sits here, the sadder it looks. It's been a decade since its heyday, and while there were a lot of good times, it's clear that pretty much everybody's moved on.

I'll totally shill Brave Earth for you, though. Where can I find a forum for that?

[Kayin]

I think I'm gonna give up on forums in general. All shilling can happen on twitter. But yeah, we got a empty husk here with some boards not having posts in them for years. Gotta set you all free.

[Fatih]

There were good times, great times, funny times and shit times. But yeah, there won't be much of a point of keeping this place running. Although I don't use the Discord server too much, it's not like people are crowding here anymore.
This was my first community and it sucks to see it go, but there's nothing to do but archive it.
Goodbye P̶u̶y̶o̶ ̶N̶e̶x̶u̶s̶ IWBTF when the time comes. Hope to actually see some of you on my Discord DMs, damn it.

[Garrettp375]

I had some good memories here, it's been a great ride but really the discord is just so much more active.

I can understand the reason entirely.

[Rebag102]

Good call, been dead town for years now tbh.

[LOLGAMMER]

Don’t delete fhe forums :(

[MrHappilman ANG get some]

Please make this an community choice

[Kayin]

Community choice has pretty much been 'let it die' with a few hold outs and sorry guys I'm not leaving a security hole up for a few holdouts.

[MrHappilman ANG get some]

Archive the forums and make it read only

[Kayin]

Not quite doing that. I'll be Internet Archive style ripping the boards into HTML. This removes security issues with ru nning old forum software. I'll then keep the MySQL database somewhere just in case.

[MrHappilman ANG get some]

Also there is a lot of one message accounts (probably bots) and these bots need to be removed

[Cantavanda]

Please don't delete it forever! So much memories are stored here.
An archive with a pleasing layout seems good. This blue one would be a great hommage.
I used to be so excited to come here every day, and it's sad how it has become less active year by year, but I still hold great value in this place.

[Kayin]

My current archival techniques that I've decided to try should maintain the forums appearance.

So yeah, on new years I'll be setting the board to read only mode. I'll be moving to an archival copy somewhere down the line. I'll leave the boards 'up and locked' for awhile longer after that for people to possibly recover things like private messages and the likes.