So you may have noticed some forums vanished.
Or maybe not.
Site forums that really haven’t been getting any activity I’ve pruned.
With most sites having shifted to Facebook for their communication needs, I’m mulling what role these forums still have to play in the community as a whole. Things are so ridiculously different now than when the boards were originally started 10 years ago. And really, it started before that, but it was 10 years ago that I registered the original lfboards.com URL. From the original forum hosted by ezboard.com, to free hosting that was provided by ~!Super Mutt!~ from Ballarat, to finally paying for hosting in February 2004… it’s been an interesting experience. And by “interesting” I mean “the amount of forum posts we’ve lost due to server moves or other things blowing up is ridiculous.”
So I guess what it boils down to is as long as people in the community continue to find value in the site as a whole, it’ll continue to be here. When people feel it’s completely outlived its usefulness, it’ll ride off into the sunset and become a very small footnote in the history of the internet.
