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Given that most people if they're closing a site to reopen will try to reuse anything they've paid for, I'm not sure that's as true as cited.I think the money flowing in from those new forums is a big part of what has kept the developers/designers in business though
Also note that paid-software forums historically stood a better chance of success because of sunk cost fallacy.