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Internet groups shutting down
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:31 pm
In the past year or so, three of the internet groups I've been a long time member of have shut down or planning on shutting down.
One was a boxing forum and the other was a long time motorcycle forum that had been a member of since 1999 are no longer available and the third, a darts forum is shutting down at the end of March.
Anyone else noticing this trend or am I just that lucky? Seems like many of these specialized interest groups are going the Facebook route.
One was a boxing forum and the other was a long time motorcycle forum that had been a member of since 1999 are no longer available and the third, a darts forum is shutting down at the end of March.
Anyone else noticing this trend or am I just that lucky? Seems like many of these specialized interest groups are going the Facebook route.
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Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:32 pm to gumbo2176
Are you suffering TD go to Facebook? If so, I'm out.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:32 pm to gumbo2176
Man, you really like forums.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:33 pm to gumbo2176
Petition Chicken for a Dart Board.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:35 pm to gumbo2176
I was on a forum about forums, but we ran of material. You can only discuss these for so long:
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:36 pm to gumbo2176
Forums is where all the car fixing trouble shooting info is. Youtube shows you how to change the part but not necessarily the trouble shoot process. Sometimes you just need the words of someone that has been there before. Like for a motor swap or what ever.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:39 pm to gumbo2176
Just follow them to facebook. You don’t have to use the forum for anything else.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:39 pm to kywildcatfanone
quote:
Are you suffering TD go to Facebook? If so, I'm out.
Hell no. TD has a lot of traffic daily, so I see no reason for it to go in another direction.
The boxing forum and the darting forum cited a big drop in active membership as their reason, along with the amount of time the admins have to dedicate to keeping things running smoothly.
People get older, other things happen in their lives that make it harder to maintain sites, etc.
Basically, life goes on.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 4:41 pm to Shorty_price
I think the OT would benefit tremendously with the addition of a Boxing Board
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:06 pm to gumbo2176
Stay calm and Chive on!
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:09 pm to gumbo2176
Message boards are dying outside of Reddit.
Even TD is getting older.
Even TD is getting older.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:11 pm to LordSaintly
And Reddit is full of bots and is funded by Soros
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:12 pm to gumbo2176
But think of all that work productivity now.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:13 pm to gumbo2176
quote:Are both of their other users disappointed, too??
a darts forum is shutting down
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:15 pm to gumbo2176
Forums are dying to Facebook groups, news at 11.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:32 pm to Oates Mustache
quote:why?
Forums are dying to Facebook groups
why don't members of Generation [Insert cutesy demo name here] use message boards?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:42 pm to Kafka
quote:
why? why don't members of Generation [Insert cutesy demo name here] use message boards?
Gen z doesn’t even comprehend a computer file system. Colleges are now requiring basic PC classes because Gen Z doesn’t know how to use them. So you can forget things like listservs or web forums.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 5:47 pm to gumbo2176
Online forums are so 2009.
I used to belong to one back in the day for years and it ended shutting down around 2013. Moderator kept on asking for donations in order to pay for the host web services. Nobody paid lol, ended shutting down.
Facebook has practically a group for everything, and that is why forums are either dead or dying.
I used to belong to one back in the day for years and it ended shutting down around 2013. Moderator kept on asking for donations in order to pay for the host web services. Nobody paid lol, ended shutting down.
Facebook has practically a group for everything, and that is why forums are either dead or dying.
Posted on 2/22/26 at 6:09 pm to gumbo2176
Aren’t boxing and motorcycles going the way of the dodo?
Posted on 2/22/26 at 6:11 pm to gumbo2176
Yea - i have seen forums and interest-based websites close..
Sometimes, it is the cost of servers if they were popular, or the owners/admins got tired of trying to keep things going, or the photos being stolen from the website without acknowledgements. Some get bought and then dropped.
I know one of at least one Jeep related forum that had lots of good tech data and info that is gone. I used to print out the discussions/photos for reference.
ANother Class 8 truck related site had tons of photos and interesting discussions of old trucks, trucking in 50s-70s and it too is gone.
And as we have seen here, posters/participants age and die as well.
Digital version of community groups in some ways...
Sometimes, it is the cost of servers if they were popular, or the owners/admins got tired of trying to keep things going, or the photos being stolen from the website without acknowledgements. Some get bought and then dropped.
I know one of at least one Jeep related forum that had lots of good tech data and info that is gone. I used to print out the discussions/photos for reference.
ANother Class 8 truck related site had tons of photos and interesting discussions of old trucks, trucking in 50s-70s and it too is gone.
And as we have seen here, posters/participants age and die as well.
Digital version of community groups in some ways...
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