Intention to liquidate the forums

March 17, 2025

I intend to liquidate the forums and use the web hosting service that has hosted it to host PlotBible instead.

This move will save both time and economic resources. Since relaunching the forums over a year ago, I have remained the sole registered user. I cannot justify spending time and money on its continued maintenance. A single-user forums just does not make any sense. While, with a larger following, it may be of future use, it is most practical to close it down and leave that responsibility to a third-party community — should such a thing ever exist.

I was anticipating a possible use for it in the future as a support hub for fans and patrons, but I think it would be more efficient to handle that over private communications and Patreon.

Even if it had been used by more than one user, managing a forums is a lot of work — mostly non-productive (i.e. managing people does not create content).

I will keep the forums up for at least the rest of March (registrations will be disabled), but I will shut it down after in the near future once the landing page for PlotBible is ready.

Consequently, since the forums will be shut down, I will no longer be offering preferential forums ranking for patrons.

I will archive (via the Internet Archive) all public forums content before I shut it down. Most content on the forums is content that I have posted already elsewhere.