Deciding to close the Minecraft Forum, along with a handful of other community websites, wasn’t an easy decision for our company, but we could no longer justify the substantial engineering resources it took to run the properties. It was a sad day in our office when we announced the sunsetting of many beloved sites.
Previously, we weren’t able to entertain selling the sites because they were built on a proprietary platform. It would be a monumental task for an external engineering team to maintain or migrate the communities. Knowing this, we announced the site closures, but just as the sun slowly began to set for these properties, a figure appeared . . .
As of this week, we’ve identified a company with the necessary experience to buy and run these sites (including the Minecraft Forum), so that the passionate communities will continue to have homes on these long-standing sites. With this, we have started to transfer the sites to Magic Find. As for the staff on these sites, it will be up to them and Magic Find to decide how they’d like to move forward.
This isn’t the end for the Minecraft Forum. It’s a new and exciting beginning. We wish Magic Find the best as we say goodbye to several of the properties that helped our company grow into what it is today.
This will be the last update from Curse/Fandom. All future communications will be from the new site owner.
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Posted Jun 12, 2019I for one welcome our new overlords, but will miss the old ones too.
citricsquid will be missed as site admin
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Posted Jun 13, 2019I was wondering where you'd go after all of these years after the closing announcement. Glad to know you'll be around for (hopefully) years to come! I also hope citricsquid will stay involved in some way, he's a great guy.
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Posted Jun 15, 2019Awesome news indeed!
I'll second that regarding citricsquid...along with much thanks.
Hope he can still have some involvement, but likely not by the sounds of it.
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Posted Jun 15, 2019Yay! I'm so excited and happy for this website! And yeah... RIP old admins...
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Posted Jun 15, 2019He chose to take this chance to leave, he wasn't forced out of his position. The existing mods and admins though will still be here.
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Posted Jun 17, 2019YEAH BOI!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for your service citric... btw
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Surprise! A few new site admins decided to hop in and host the Forums after news of its archival was announced. Continue on your normal ways, everyone.
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Well, this was unexpected. It's like saying prayers as you're about to die and then living. Welcome back everyone! We lived!
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Posted Jun 12, 2019They made a tv comedy about this. You get diagnosed with a terminal disease and are told you have just 6 months to live, you go out and do something amazingly stupid (like get married to the barista who takes your coffee order each morning) and pile up an insanely large amount of debt, and then right as you reach that final point of acceptance that you're really gonna die the doc calls up and says "well, this is embarassing, I don't know how to say this but you're going to live. Someone at the lab screwed up the tests."
Guess we really are making progress on the Minecraft movie everyone's been talking about...
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Isn't that the truth!
I hope we haven't jumped from the pot into the fire, though. It's my hope that Magic Find will be good owners, and I'm confident they will. At first glance, they look like a company practically specialized to handle our forums.
Good luck, everyone, and Magic Find!
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Lets make it another 10 years
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Will the forums stay on this website then? Will current accounts still be able to be used?
This is wonderful news!
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Posted Jun 12, 2019I think all of that should stay the same.
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Posted Jun 12, 2019From what we know the background software will be changed in time but everything should pretty much be as is as far as members are concerned
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Alright everybody- let's forgot this whole thing ever happened!
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Posted Jun 12, 2019What happened?
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Posted Jun 12, 2019The forum being shut down and now we’re more or less back to normal
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Posted Jun 13, 2019What are you talking about? The forum isn't being shut down. It has never been in the process of shutting down. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia.
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Posted Jun 14, 2019i know, i was being sarcastic and pretending nothing had happened
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Posted Jun 16, 2019