Announcing shutdowns

[Lord Saru]

Do you announce the shutting down of your forums? Or when the activity is too less, you just shut it down and not announce anything?

 

[zappaDPJ]

On the rare occasion I've closed a forum I always give my members a lot of notice (months) and options if they want to continue on another format e.g. to a Facebook group or Discord.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I usually like to give my members a heads up if I'm going to shut down the forum. This way if they wish to save posts or keep in contact with other members by getting their email addresses or links to Discord they can.

 

[Cory]

When the board has grown and people have put it to good use, I would announce the shutdown. Otherwise, if the board has been open for only about a month and doesn't have a lot of activity anyway, I'd probably leave a board offline message stating that it has closed, and maybe a reason.

 

[Bryn]

I did give my members plenty of notice when The Lightweb was closing, amid the Tapatalk crisis. For mindsConnected however, in its first run, it had shut unexpectedly but at least I gave reasons as to why (and also provided a Discord channel of it when I didn't want to displace some of my members).

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Typically, when I close a forum down, it is because activity has stopped completely.

There is no one to announce it to. No one is active or has been active for months. I usually just silently close it down.

 

[Nomad]

I have shut down forums a couple of things and that was because of low activity and I did not announce, I did not bother to announce.

 

[The Raven92]

In the past I think I did but nowadays I became used to facing failure so I just quit. If I had an active forum with at least 10 people around, maybe it would be worth letting them know.

 

[Baw$e]

Not really. I've renamed or moved posts to other forums without posting an update/announcement.

 

[uptrendfinancialsignal]

I believe it is polite to announce a shutdown or serious changes, at least when you have an active community. It demonstrates that you value your users.