# Recommended way to close and archive a Discourse forum itself?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-close-and-archive-a-discourse-forum-itself/62664
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [12 augustus 2016 om 23:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-close-and-archive-a-discourse-forum-itself/62664 "2016-08-12T23:44:57Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13 mei 2017 om 18:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/recommended-way-to-close-and-archive-a-discourse-forum-itself/62664/5 "2017-05-13T18:24:56Z")

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There is new info at

> [@A basic Discourse archival tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614):
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> Archival tool updated with Codex May 2026 It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an-old-forum-in-place-to-start-a-new-discourse-forum/13433/10) by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”. It doesn’t appear that this is a priority for the Discourse team, either, which is perfectly understandable. For my purposes, though, I found that I really needed some way to generate basic, static HTML versions of my Discourse sites. I’ve been using Discourse for a couple of years now as a d…

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