Abruptly deleting a forum?

[Cedric]

Have you ever been a member of a forum that's abruptly deleted all of their content before? How do you feel when the site owner just says "goodbye" and doesn't give any advance warning whatsoever?

 

[Phabbyfundz]

I was once part of a forum where you go to buy forums and other discuss about other webmaster related issues and after a few months they just shut it all down.

I didn't feel bad about it but it I was hoping that they lasted a lot more longer than they actually did.

 

[Nomad]

I have never been a member of any forum that shut down abruptly, however, a lot of forums where I have been a member for a long time were shut down in my absence. if I find a frum shutdown, I feel that the information I shared and the content I posted would be abused.

 

[Shortie]

I was once part of a forum that had been around for quite a while and they were thriving with constant activity and had a great community of members one day, I went to log on and they were gone, the forum was no longer there and I was just getting an error. I kept checking every day after that a few times a day just in case it was an issue but it seemed that they just upped and deleted everything without warning or a goodbye. It's a shame when that happens but I believe they must have had a reason to do that especially with it being as active as it was.

 

[Cory]

I'm sure it may have happened, but I don't recall ever joining a forum that just deleted their board out of the blue. Though, turning the board offline I'm pretty sure I probably experienced it multiple times.

 

[Heatman]

Have you ever been a member of a forum that's abruptly deleted all of their content before? How do you feel when the site owner just says "goodbye" and doesn't give any advance warning whatsoever?

Unfortunately, I have been on more than one forum that have done something dumb like this. I felt really bad because there's nothing like an update and boom, everything is gone up in smoke.

I have also been in forums that automatically went offline without ever notice and never came back. One of such forums that I was in used to be a PTP site.