Why are some music forums shutting down?
 

I mean come on!

Why are some music forums and other forums shutting down?

I am getting tired of websites shutting down -_-

Wasn't there a saying

"Once It's Posted It's On there" 'FOREVER!!!!!"

When a person opens a website or a forum....

It should stay online for eternity...

Same with GFX forums, all the one I been have closed due to financial problems or other ****...

MusicBanter had a problem way back in April where some guy name Chuck Harvey from MB's corporate headquarters was going to turn MusicBanter into an entirely different forum.

A lot of them have lost so many members and have such little traffic, I'm not surprised they're shutting down.
It probably comes down to a lack of interest vs operating expenses.

I assume other social sites like facebook are competing with music forums for participants in music related discussions and that the other sites are winning. I understand that being a forum user is not the norm these days, but just about everyone's on facebook ..

If I want to discuss a specific artist or a particular scene, facebook may also be a better place to do so because then I would discuss it with members of a particular group on there dedicated to the subject. Here I'd just have to hope that someone else has interest enough in the subject to discuss it with me if I start a topic.

This is the most likely issue. The other is outside pressure to limit file sharing and / or users who abuse the servers to those ends. Like Tore mentions as well, Facebook is likely the other big reason for a decline in users which results in less (or even negative) profit for the site owners.

They're shutting down because they finally realize that MB is a million times better than they are. :p

It's simple really. They're shutting down because donuts don't wear alligator shoes.

Why not just be happy that there are still forums to post on? Seems kind of ironic to post a thread asking why forums are closing on a forum that is still alive and active.

Forums in general are considered old hat, I think, because social media users find them slow, clunky, and inconvenient. This is coming from someone who mods a forumsite that got bought out by a second-rate social networking site seven years ago, harvested for its parts, and spit out after being suffocated into obscurity.

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Now I'm depressed.