Hi. I was a member and moderator 5+ years for a particular forum. In October the site suddenly ended (was discontinued?), with no notice or warning of any kind to members or staff, and no response to inquiry from forum owner. The forum had a great amount of important content, and it would be unfor…

Would be impossible to know unless you know or can find out what happened with the servers for that, sorry for your loss. There may be backups or you can also try a search here to see if there were any external archives made of that site: https://web.archive.org/

Thanks, that’s what I expected. The loss is unfortunate. The external archive search is a good thought. I will give that a try.

Hope you are able to make contact with that forum owner to find out what happened. There would also be records of e-mails sent out to anyone subscribed to the site when it was still active if members kept those, if you have any way to contact other past members you could ask about that if they want…

No email contact for the admin? Perhaps you can get a backup of the forum from the original admin and ask to relaunch the site and run it yourself? If you don’t have an email for the admin check the about page on the web archive, there’s usually an email in contact us section there.

@merefield : [صورة] jeff: no response to inquiry from forum owner.

Can you register the domain? If you can do that you can recreate a Discourse forum there and hope old members will find it and sign up. You could pin a notice. Before you know it there will be a lot of new content.

My apologies for the slow reply. @anon36555649 Yes, I am in contact with several former members, and we are in the process of contacting/re-assembling others from the collective info. we have. @merefield [صورة] Robert: Perhaps you can get a backup of the forum from the original admin and ask…

@jeffing65 I am curious. After all this time were you able to rebuild your community?

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tobiaseigen (Tobias Eigen) 10 أكتوبر 2025، 4:46م 9

@jeffing65 أنا فضولي. بعد كل هذا الوقت، هل تمكنت من إعادة بناء مجتمعك؟

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