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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Ya both the DSM and Evo forums I was on just disappeared one day and never came back. Pretty normal for any non commercial site I am afraid.
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Yep, these sites aren't free to host, and ads don't always pay the bills, or the original owner/sponsor moves on. I've had that happen to many over the years.
It was much more common in the BBS days for popular boards to just go away, when stuff was run on private servers and such. Once I ran a BBS for a while that I was a member of after the host passed away. Basically I helped the family do an elegant shutdown of it rather than just turning off the power. It just so happened I know the "owner" and his family.