Retire Forum

[upnet]

Wondering what you all do when a forum becomes no longer relevant? I am thinking to archive it somewhere but not sure where it would make sense to put it. Anyone have a method they have used?

 

[Rimesia]

I have so much of them but eventhough they are dead they still get visitors from google. I create an Archive forum in the end of the board and stack every forum there as a subforum.

 

[Joeychgo]

Wondering what you all do when a forum becomes no longer relevant? I am thinking to archive it somewhere but not sure where it would make sense to put it. Anyone have a method they have used?

You can always sell it. People like me and others buy forums all the time

 

[CTXMedia]

If it is no longer relevant, why not just close it? Or did you mean to say that it is no longer active (but you want to keep it open for reference)?

 

[Fred.]

I close them, move them to the Archive forum and hide them from the forum index. They are still available from search engines. So I keep the ranking.

 

[CTXMedia]

Wondering what you all do when a forum becomes no longer relevant? I am thinking to archive it somewhere but not sure where it would make sense to put it. Anyone have a method they have used?

Some context might help - when you say forum do you mean the whole site (with all it's forums and sub-forums) - or do you mean a single forum within your site that is no longer in fashion / being used?

 

[jellytoe]

I meant a single forum within the site. I simply removed it from the forum_list but it still is all there.