Please note: this announcement is no longer applicable, please refer to the updated announcement: https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning
As follows is the original announcement:
Today we are announcing that we have made the difficult decision to transition the Minecraft Forum from an active website to a read-only archive. This decision has been made after careful consideration about how we can best serve the Minecraft community with the resources we have available. A read-only archive of the website will ensure that the valuable content contributed over many years is safe-guarded, remaining available for visitors to explore.
From everyone at the Minecraft Forum we are deeply grateful for our communities contributions to the forum over the last decade, big and small. Millions of members have shared tens of millions of posts that have been viewed billions of times, and everyone contributed something to make this forum great. Minecraft Mod creators helped expand the world of Minecraft, support volunteers worked tirelessly to provide access to that world and everyone together turned that world into a community.
Read only mode will be enabled on June 16th, 2019. From this date you will no longer be able to login to the Minecraft Forum and no new content will be created, however all links to the Minecraft Forum will continue to work as-is, all content will remain accessible. This change does not impact the Minecraft Wiki. The Minecraft Wiki will continue as an active website, we have no plans to archive the Minecraft Wiki.
We appreciate that this is a big change and that there will be many questions. I am available in the comments of this news post to answer any questions you may have, and you are welcome to reach out via Private Message if you have any questions you would like to ask privately.
Please use the comments as an opportunity to share your story about what this community has meant to you. We would love to hear about how the forum has impacted you, whether it inspired a passion for creating, helped build friendships or simply provided you somewhere to share your love of the game -- any thoughts you may have are welcome.
- citricsquid
RIP Minecraft Forum - June 16, 2009 to June 16, 2019. You'll be missed!
Feels like an end of an era
I feel like this is directly paralleled to what Microsoft is doing with Java edition
You will be missed, MinecraftForum.
I missed out on this place for quite a while, as I felt like I didn't need it. But now I'm going to miss it. May not have been with it for a long time, and didn't even have an account till...well..now..but It helped me, and it WILL be missed.
No this is happening across many sites owned by Cursed and is unrelated to Minecraft.
No, it's probably from either the execs at Amazon or Wikia.
Here are some scenarios I believe are likely.
1. Amazon set forth for them to shut down, but then Wikia bought Curse, the forums parent company, and those plans were already in motion.
or
2. Wikia bought Curse to shut down their forums in favor of Wikia.
OR
3. Discord is taking over forums.
Probably 1 or 3 in my opinion.
maybe not: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/forums/forum-discussion-info/2965133-minecraft-forums-replaced
my solution.;,;.
Not Enjin, pleassseeeee not enjin
I can't say anything you already said Dreamon. It doesn't matter how long I had my account, I still missed out.
https://forum.feed-the-beast.com/forum/
It's more or less the same than Minecraftforum.
bad bad if u search google for a problem u will get no answer because all is on discord channels
What do you mean
GoodBye Minecraft Forum, you will be deeply missed.
It was a wild ride, thanks for all of the help on here guys. Minecraft Forums will be dearly missed. Legendary.
History shutting down
Gone, but never forgotten.
Never forgotten.
This is a new account, I forgot my old account. I've just made my way back into Minecraft. It's really sad that this is shutting down, though.
free forum with 5 posts vs planet minecraft, 2.4 mil members
hmmm...