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Was there an explanation? Considering the low traffic I'm sure they could keep it running off of donations from nostalgic readers.

• Lascaille 5y ago
  From a quick flick through based on that link, the issue seems to be that the forum code is bespoke and written in perl, and the environment (apache & mod_perl, nothing great, nothing terrible) is obsolete and nobody who's volunteered to port it in the past actually followed through.
  • bombcar 5y ago
    Maintaining a working forum is obviously a chore, but converting it to read only pages could have been worth it.
    • Gigachad 5y ago
      archive.org is that readonly form.