# How do you hide a forum without cancelling service?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 29, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-hide-a-forum-without-cancelling-service/280491 "2023-09-29T03:40:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Milly\_Brown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/milly_brown/32/330042_2.png) [@Milly\_Brown](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Milly_Brown)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2023, 3:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-you-hide-a-forum-without-cancelling-service/280491/1 "2023-09-29T03:40:40Z")

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We want to hide our forum (we’re seeing a high level of spam/misuse and aren’t currently actively moderating) until we can determine our moderation plan.

How do we do this without cancelling the service and retaining the data/questions that have been asked so far?

Thanks!

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