# The Community Lifecycle: From Launch to Legacy

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-community-lifecycle-from-launch-to-legacy/387820
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [November 6, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-community-lifecycle-from-launch-to-legacy/387820 "2025-11-06T20:12:44Z")
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### Author: ![HAWK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hawk/32/86627_2.png) [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-community-lifecycle-from-launch-to-legacy/387820/6 "2025-11-09T19:17:30Z")

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> [@manuel](#):
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> It would be powerful if Discourse could lead the way here and support communities through their entire lifecycle

Can you elaborate a bit on this? Currently we offer an option on our hosting to archive the site in read-only mode for perpetuity, but we obv can’t do that for free because there is an ongoing cost to us.

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