WotC shuts down forums

[MrWolfe]

We take our struggle to the tubes! Spread the word to Reddit, 4chan, and Twitter! Get money via crowsfunding sites! We will not be stopped, we will not be silenced! Viva la revolucion!

Heh. While I appreciate the sentiment, I can't offhand think of a single time that's worked. Though I think MxR may have managed to get his youtube channel sponsors back somehow after the Braith incident, so that might be one.

Anyway, this is getting way off topic. Sorry.

[Lokiyn]

Off topic, but congratulations to Orc_Paradox for being the oldest surviving forum member with the oldest surviving post (baring zombiegleemax of course)

http://community.wizards.com/comment/14078541#comment-14078541

[Giles the Cleric]

There's appx 24 hours left to mirror content.

[Lokiyn]

there's a forum post on the MTG boards saying that they pushed back the shutdown to the 5th of november, but i'm still downloading as fast as i can....
guys.. i want by computer back . heh

on a side note i have the option to put a name on a tombstone in the numeria pc game, and i'm really trying to resist the urge to put a reference to this here.

[Giles the Cleric]

Until there's an official announcement, I'm assuming that the date hasn't changed.

[Lokiyn]

Snagged a few more items during the reprieve; I also have a crawls for all the posts from; Tempest Stormwind, Slagger The Chuul, Caelic, Radical Taoist, Khan the Destroyer, and Lycanthromancer; if anyone wants the WinHTTrack scan rules for downloading just your stuff, all you need to do is the following

click on view all posts then sort by date on the right, that should show your most recent post at the top
after you have the search sorted then use that url as your start address

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+http://community.wizards.com/search/site?pag*
+http://community.wizards.com/com*
-*#c*
+http://community.wizards.com/foru*threa*
+http://community.wizards.com/sit*Put the preceding in the scan rules, set your limits and such in the other tabs, then start it up, takes something like 16+ hours or so if you have 4000 posts or more as it goes through all the links then downloads all the threads you've ever posted in.

[Lokiyn]

Here it goes, i'm already seeing problems with viewing and posting.
i'm going to feed the main forum pages to wayback every two minutes or so to try and capture the end.

at 12:18 Cst the forums finally went dead.
Rest in pieces community.wizards.com

[Lokiyn]

This final two posts (on the Dnd site) were between
ChrisCarlson & Bold Italic who entered a mock flame war in honor of the end.
Which seems appropriate somehow.