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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].
New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].


(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)
A list of sites which warrant pre-emptive monitoring (either for their cultural significance or because they appear to be endangered) can be found at [[Fire Drill]]. Some general brainstorming is at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].


== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==
== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==


=== Sunset Happy ===
Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].


*Oath/Verizon
=== 2028 ===
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).
* Russian federal and regional authorities will gradually close their websites on the Internet and transfer information resources to the Gosuslugi portal. This process will take about five years.<ref>{{url|1=https://www.banki.ru/news/lenta/?id=10986406}}</ref>
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''
* [[Reddit]] "quarantines" many controversial subreddits with up to hundreds of thousands subscribers each. Many of such quarantined subreddits have been deleted, so it is important to make backups of them. [https://www.reddit.com/r/thequarantinelist/ Here is a list of quarantined reddits.]
* [[Wikidot]] has not had development work for years, there is no official presence on their [http://community.wikidot.com/forum:recent-posts support forum], just many complaints about the difficulty contacted staff, even from those with paid accounts. Backup and wiki conversion tools are poor, services like search and anti-spam bots have problems for some time, and the site has been [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228862.0 up for sale] since February 2020.


=== Just When You Least Expect It ===
=== 2026 ===
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.breatharian.eu/|breatharian.eu}}, which includes a forum. Announcement first appeared between January and May 2022.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220524161320/http://www.breatharian.eu/</ref>


Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.
=== 2024 ===
 
=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===
 
* User-created content in video games are always in danger of a being lost forever. This includes:
** Over 100,000 levels made in games like the Little Big Planet series or Super Mario Maker series.
** Custom golf courses made in The Golf Club series.
** Various banners, spray paints, weapon skins, and insignias from competitive online shooters.
** Maps in multiple Halo games have been modified and shared with the Forge game mode.
** Specialized tracks built in car racing games.
** Almost everything made in the PlayStation 4 game Dreams.
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state.
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy.
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown.
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos.
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)
* [[8chan]] disappeared from the clearnet in early August 2019.
* [[SteamGridDB]] is unable to pay for its servers, and will shut down on 31st March 2020 unless there is some sort of miraculous Patreon/sponsor intervention.
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].
 
== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==


Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].
* Unknown: {{URL|https://wamu.org/|WAMU}} and {{URL|https://dcist.com/|DCist}}, both are run by public media outlet WAMU which currently appears to be in danger of {{URL|https://twitter.com/ElaheIzadi/status/1760814525714981340|shutting down}}.
* Unknown: {{URL|https://arca.live/b/genshin|Genshin channel}}, a Korean genshin impact community. the channel moderator {{URL|https://arca.live/b/request/95528395|decided to bomb}} {{URL|https://arca.live/b/request/95536635| the channel}}
* Unknown: Google Podcasts<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/google-podcasts-to-shut-down-in-2024-with-listeners-migrated-to-youtube-music/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.engadget.com/google-podcasts-which-is-an-actual-thing-to-shut-down-next-year-172640308.html}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on {{datetime|2024-01-01}} and, although Ancestry says they "will remain on RootsWeb as static content", that likely just means the deletion deadline hasn't been set or announced yet.
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.grasshopper3d.com/|Grasshopper}}, 'a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools', is shutting down their website, but not their forums. First mentioned on {{datetime|2023-08-03}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20230803064804/https://www.grasshopper3d.com/}}</ref>
* Sometime soon: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en|Vice.com}}, a media website famous for its extremism coverage.<ref>{{URL|https://fortune.com/2024/02/23/vice-media-shutting-vice-com-laying-off-several-hundred-staff/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-12-31}}: the Open Collective Foundation ({{URL|https://opencollective.foundation/|1}}, {{URL|https://opencollective.com/foundation/|2}}} {{URL|https://blog.opencollective.com/tag/ocf/|3}}) is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://opencollective.com/foundation/updates/announcement-we-are-dissolving-open-collective-foundation-at-the-end-of-this-year}}</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://communityovercode.com/2024/02/open-collective-foundation-shutdown-explainer/</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-12-31}}: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}
* {{datetime|2024-08-24}}: {{URL|https://www.vbulletin.org/|vBulletin.org}}, official community platform for the forum software, with paywalled downloads<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=329671}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-07-29}}: {{URL|https://marketplace.xbox.com|Xbox Marketplace}} and Xbox 360 Store will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console and the Xbox 360 Marketplace.<ref>{{URL|https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/08/17/xbox-360-store-will-close-july-2024/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-07-??}}: {{URL|https://forums.thesims.com/|The official forums for The Sims}} are moving to a new host, and will be deleting all content made before October 18, 2022 or after March 12, 2024. <ref>{{URL|https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/1012877/an-important-update-on-the-future-of-these-forums}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-06-30}}: {{URL|https://www.mini2.info/|MINI²}}, a German forum for the Mini car.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.mini2.info/showthread.php?tid=69087}}</ref> Attachments require a login.
* {{datetime|2024-06-30}}: {{URL|https://www.newshub.co.nz/|NewsHub}}, a New Zealand news service will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/350194958/live-newshub-close-end-june}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-06-18}}: {{URL|https://ambrosia.moe/|ambrosia.moe}}, a Sharkey [[Fediverse]] instance will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://ambrosia.moe/@moshibar/pages/ambrosia-moe-and-you}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-06-01}}: UK Tesco (supermarket) unofficial staff forum {{URL|https://www.verylittlehelps.com/|Very Little Helps}} will be shut down after the owner passed away. The forum has been made viewable to all without restrictions since the closure announcement.<ref>{{URL|https://www.verylittlehelps.com/index.php?topic=17906.0}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-05-20|09:00}}: the World of Tanks forums (for {{URL|https://forum.worldoftanks.com/|NA}}, {{URL|https://forum.worldoftanks.eu/|EU}}, and {{URL|https://forum.worldoftanks.asia/|Asia}}) will shut down (having gone read-only at {{datetime|2024-02-20|09:00}}).<ref>{{URL|https://worldoftanks.com/en/news/general-news/community-update-wot-forum-yt-consolidation-feb24/}}</ref>
* Sometime in May: {{URL|https://www.strose.edu/|College of Saint Rose}}, a private Catholic college, will cease academic instruction after the end of the 2023-2024 academic year.<ref>{{URL|https://www.strose.edu/2023/12/01/the-college-of-saint-rose-announces-it-will-close/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://www.funimation.com/|Funimation}}, an anime streaming service, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065940/funimation-shutdown-crunchyroll-digital-library}}</ref>
* April: {{URL|https://nitter.uni-sonia.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1709418623566020975#m|Nintendo}} will stop online play and other features that use online communication will cease to be available for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U software.<ref>{{URL|https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/63227/}}</ref>
* April: {{URL|https://nitter.uni-sonia.com/rverseClub/status/1709421718304153614#m|Rverse}} (an alternative to Miiverse after its closure), will die at the same time as the closure of services for the Nintendo 3DS.
* Early April: {{URL|https://cohost.org/staff/post/5023717-march-2024-financial|Cohost}}, a social media site, will run out money, and they don't have a definite plan.
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref>
* End of March: {{URL|https://drizly.com/|Drizly}}, an online alcohol ordering and delivery platform, will be shutdown by Uber.<ref>{{URL|https://support.drizly.com/hc/en-us/articles/23238173058701-Drizly-Sunset-FAQ}}</ref>
* End of March: {{URL|https://www.waseda.jp/|Waseda University}} terminates its old web hosting service<ref>{{URL|https://www.waseda.jp/navi/news/2023/0203.html}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: The {{URL|https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/|official forums}} for the video game Big Farm by GoodGame (in all {{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/inline/t4O50/community.goodgamestudios.com_bigfarm_seed_urls.txt|18+ languages}}) will be shut down in favour of [[Discord]], having gone read-only on {{datetime|2024-03-01}}.<ref>{{URL|https://community.goodgamestudios.com/bigfarm/en/discussion/220239/important-update-transitioning-from-our-forums-to-discord-community-hub}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://www.thefork.com.au/|TheFork Australia}}, the Australian branch of the online restaurant booking platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://www.thefork.com.au/blog/important-information-about-thefork-australia-and-expiry-your-points}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://www.odn.ne.jp/index.html|ODN Homepage Service}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.odn.ne.jp/odn_info/20230413.html}}</ref> Each websites are located in directories under the www1.odn.ne.jp and www2.odn.ne.jp domains.
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://www.synapse.jp/|SYNAPSE Homepage Service}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.synapse.jp/info/cgi/?pr2023040501}}</ref> Each websites are located in directories under the www.synapse.ne.jp, www2.synapse.ne.jp, www3.synapse.ne.jp, www4.synapse.ne.jp, www5.synapse.ne.jp, www13.synapse.ne.jp, and www15.synapse.ne.jp domains.
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://wezz-y.com/|Wezzy}}, Japanese web magazine will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://wezz-y.com/archives/95862}}</ref> It will finish updating at the end of 2023.
* {{datetime|2024-03-29}}: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.
* {{datetime|2024-03-28}}: {{URL|1=https://secure.runescape.com/m=forum/forums|2=RuneScape forums}}, after going read-only on {{datetime|2024-01-25}}<ref>{{URL|1=https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a-notice-to-players-about-our-forums?oldschool=1}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-28}}: {{URL|https://watch.pokemon.com/|Pokemon TV}} will shut down its app and website. The website already seems unavailable as of {{datetime|2024-01-25}} simply redirecting to the shutdown notice and the app was removed from app stores on {{datetime|2024-01-08}}.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/pokemon-tv-to-discontinue-in-march-2024}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-27}}: {{URL|https://loco.yahoo.co.jp|Yahoo Japan Loco}}, a mapping directory, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://loco.yahoo.co.jp/special/thank-you}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-27}}: {{URL|https://forum.gardenersworld.com/}} will close after becoming read-only on {{datetime|2024-03-20}}.
* {{datetime|2024-03-24}}: [[Taringa!]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.taringa.net/+taringa/taringa-cerrara-el-24-de-marzo_5bsu6r}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-15}}: {{URL|https://anon.cafe/|Anon.cafe}} imageboard<ref>{{URL|https://anon.cafe/meta/res/16466.html}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-12}}: {{URL|https://todaysplan.com.au|Today's Plan}}, an athletic training and coaching platform, is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://velo.outsideonline.com/road/road-gear/todays-plan-is-closing-down/}}</ref>
* Early March: {{URL|http://domain.nifty.com/|<ruby><rb>ドメイン</rb><rp> (</rp><rt>domain</rt><rp>)</rp></ruby>@nifty}}, a domain registrar owned by Nifty (a large Japanese ISP), will close, requiring users to migrate to a new registrar.<ref name="domain@nifty">{{url|https://setsuzoku.nifty.com/promo/domain/index.htm}}</ref> This is not the end of the @nifty homepage service (LaCoocan), Cocolog, and fixed IP services.<ref name="domain@nifty" />
* Beginning of March: {{URL|https://www.google.com/business/|Google Business Profile Websites}}, a website builder for small businesses, will shutdown and start redirecting to the business profile itself.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/business/answer/14368911}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-03-01}}: {{URL|http://help.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetMap Help Forum}}, a stackoverflow-style support site for OSM, will be archived as static HTML.<ref>{{URL|https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/archiving-of-help-openstreetmap-org-1st-march-2024/108483}}</ref>
* Late February: {{URL|https://artifact.news/|Artifact}}, a social news aggregator app will shutdown after going read-only on {{datetime|2024-01-12}}.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/artifact-news/shutting-down-artifact-1e70de46d419}}</ref>
* February?: {{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/|Oldschooldaw.com}} forums<ref>{{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php/topic,8173.0.html}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://manyland.com/|Manyland}}, a browser game based on user-generated content, will shut down.
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.neonmob.com/|NeonMob}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://help.neonmob.com/news/closing}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.honeycode.aws/|Amazon Honeycode}} (and probably {{URL|https://honeycodecommunity.aws/|the forums}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://honeycodecommunity.aws/t/honeycode-ending-soon-community-discussion/28317}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.bilibilicomics.com/|Bilibili Comics}}, a host of non-amateur comics<ref>Notice shown on load of homepage</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://storyloom.com/|StoryLoom}}, an interactive visual storytelling platform, is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pixelberrystudios.com/blog/2024/1/19/2024-studio-updates}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.tinyletter.com/|TinyLetter}}, a free newsletter platform by Mailchimp<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981363/mailchimp-shutting-down-tinyletter}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-27}}: {{URL|https://twitch.tv|Twitch Korea}} is shutting down due to high bandwidth costs.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2023/12/05/an-update-on-twitch-in-korea/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-24}}: {{URL|https://commaful.com/|Commaful}}<ref>{{URL|https://commaful.notion.site/commaful/A-Heartfelt-Goodbye-and-a-New-Beginning-at-Commaful-a31080180fa647f5ad69eac89fa6b532}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-22}}: [[Discord]] will begin to enforce signatures for attachment uploads from before {{datetime|2024-02-01}}.<ref>{{URL|https://matrix.hackint.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/matrix.org/EZlUqIINBJVrTXwjhgSVLOkt/image.png}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-22}}: Google Groups will stop adding new content from Usenet. Existing archives to remain available.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/groups/answer/11036538}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-22}}: {{URL|https://www.vbox7.com/|Vbox7}}, a Bulgarian video hosting platform, will remove user-uploaded content from public view. They had initially done this on {{datetime|2023-01-15}} without prior announcement<ref>{{URL|https://blog.vbox7.com/video-access/}}</ref> but then backtracked and made things available again for a month on {{datetime|2023-01-22}}<ref>{{URL|https://blog.vbox7.com/blagodarim-vi/}}</ref>.
* {{datetime|2024-02-18}}: {{URL|https://queer.af|queer.af}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance <del>shutting down on 2024-04-12<ref>{{URL|https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083}}</ref></del> had their domain suspended on 2024-02-12.<ref>{{URL|https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenvYJ0yiHfspKM8uW}}</ref> ([https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY IP address and alternative domain name]) It will be shutting down on {{datetime|2024-02-18}}<ref>{{URL|https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/Aeq10ZzYwBaRxHakb2}}</ref>.
* {{datetime|2024-02-16}}: {{URL|https://gotm.io/|gotm.io}}<ref>Info box on the site as of {{datetime|2024-02-11|01:30}}: 'Warning: Gotm will shut down permanently on the 16th of February 2024.' ([https://transfer.archivete.am/inline/HhxvY/gotm.png screenshot])</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-15}}: Support for self-hosted [[Jira]] instances will end.<ref>{{URL|https://www.atlassian.com/migration}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-12}}: The {{URL|https://forum.corel.com/|forums}} of software company Corel (now Alludo)<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.corel.com/viewtopic.php?t=70632}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-10}}: {{URL|https://toot.site/|toot.site}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down <del>in the beginning of April<ref>{{URL|https://toot.site/@meave/111699990141936477}}</ref></del> on {{datetime|2024-02-10|13:00}}, due to a critical security vulnerability<ref>{{URL|https://toot.site/@meave/111856993145637431}}</ref>.
* {{datetime|2024-02-08}}: {{URL|http://www.haowanlab.com/|画吧 (Huabar)}}, a Chinese-language painting app, will shut down.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240125181915/https://s.haowanlab.com:8008/activities/saybye/huababye.html https://web.archive.org/web/20240125181915/https://s.haowanlab.com:8008/activities/saybye/huababye.html]</ref><ref>{{URL|https://wiki.saveweb.org/en:%E7%94%BB%E5%90%A7}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-02}}: {{URL|https://nft.gamestop.com/|GameStop NFT Marketplace}} is shutting down due to "regulatory uncertainty".<ref>{{URL|https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/08/gamestop-citing-regulatory-uncertainty-winds-down-its-crypto-and-nft-wallet/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-02}}: The Rochester Institute of Technology will shut down the {{URL|https://wiki.rit.edu/|RIT Wiki}} due to Atlassian Server being discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://wiki.rit.edu/display/ritwiki/Wiki+Shutdown+Overview}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-02-01}}: Sangoma (Digium/Asterisk) is discontinuing {{URL|http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/|their mailing lists}}, archives are promised to remain available but the posting of new content will be disabled.<ref>http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2023-December/079080.html</ref><ref>http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2023-December/297250.html</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-31}}: {{URL|https://www.cnnphilippines.com/|CNN Philippines}} ceases operations, as announced officially only two days before<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2024/1/29/cnn-philippines-cessation-of-operations.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://business.inquirer.net/442885/cnn-philippines-shutting-down-as-losses-exceed-p5b}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-31}}: {{URL|https://dropshare.cloud/|Dropshare Cloud}}, a file storage service, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/08/dropshare-cloud-shut-down/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-31}}: {{URL|https://withkoji.com/|Koji}}, acquired by LinkTree.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/18if9q6/linktree_acquired_koji_thoughts/}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-31}}: {{URL|https://srad.jp/|スラド (srad)}}, formerly Slashdot Japan, and {{URL|https://osdn.net/|OSDN}}, formerly SourceForge.JP, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://srad.jp/story/24/01/22/0311225/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/shujisado/status/1749300822691958969}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-15}}: {{URL|https://gamebattles.majorleaguegaming.com/|GameBattles}}, an online tournament organizer acquired by Major League Gaming will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://esportsinsider.com/2023/11/gamebattles-to-shut-down-in-2024}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2024-01-01}}: {{URL|https://nl.hardware.info/|Hardware Info}}, a Dutch/Belgian tech site, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/87653/hardware-info-stopt-in-2024}}</ref>
* January (under review for possible extension): [[Chrome Web Store]] will stop accepting updates to manifest v2 extensions and remove all remaining manifest v2 items from the store, with support disabled for running these extensions in the Chrome browser.<ref>{{URL|https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/}}</ref>
* 'Early 2024': the {{URL|https://wiki.eclipse.org/Main_Page|Eclipse Wiki}} will be made read-only and then static HTML.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/681}}</ref>


=== 2024 ===
=== 2023 ===
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.atmosusa.com/|Atmos USA}} will close its US stores and website. No timeline given.<ref>{{URL|https://footwearnews.com/business/retail/atmos-closes-stores-website-united-states-1203535219/}}</ref>
* Unknown: China Judgments Online (court verdicts in the PRC)<ref>{{URL|https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-court-records-12142023132626.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1085741/china-judgements-online-transparency-government/}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.intheknow.com/|In The Know}}, a Yahoo News 'Gen Z-Focused' sister site has laid off staff and will be shutdown. <ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/yahoo-news-lays-off-staffers-shuts-down-gen-z-focused-site}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}
* Unknown: {{URL|https://le-boxon-de-lex.fr|Le boxon de Lex}}, a french site about celebrities appearing on TV, announced removing hosted videos and at some point the site as well<ref>{{URL|https://le-boxon-de-lex.fr/27267/epilogue}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://operanews.com/|Opera News}} publication covering classical music. Publication will end in November and unknown what will happen to the website.<ref>{{URL|https://apnews.com/article/opera-news-shutdown-metropolitan-opera-guild-11a2f328e49f03f5e93a56a11dca5d9e}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://showbuzzdaily.com/|Showbuzz Daily}} blog covering daily TV ratings. Publication ended 6/27/23 and site to go offline sometime in near future.<ref>{{URL|https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/some-unfortunate-news.html}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://stat.ink|stat.ink}}, a website that allows users to upload their Splatoon battles and statistics, has announced a potential shutdown in the future, due to being scared of Nintendo's copyright.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.fetus.jp/202305/991.html}}</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|https://twittercommunity.com|Twitter Developers Forum}} may be phased out with new API. Last reachable May 4, 2023.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230504170115/https://twittercommunity.com/</ref>
* December 22: {{URL|https://10play.com.au/studio-10|Studio 10}}, was a breakfast show by Network 10.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CznGGC8yeol/}}</ref>
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women's forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|1=https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref>
* December 19: {{URL|https://plus.globalcyclingnetwork.com/|GCN+}}, Global Cycling Network live streaming service and the GCN app will be closing in all countries and regions.<ref>{{URL|https://help.globalcyclingnetwork.com/hc/en-gb/articles/19965721079697}}</ref>
* December 19: {{URL|https://www.insideimaging.com.au/|Inside Imaging}}, an Australian outlet on the photography industry, is winding down, though the website will remain online for the time being.<ref>{{URL|https://www.insideimaging.com.au/2023/inside-imaging-is-shutting-down/}}</ref>
* December 15: {{URL|https://apo.org.au/|Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO)}} is closing operations at Swinburne University.<ref>{{URL|https://apo.org.au/FAQ}}</ref>
* December 15: The {{URL|https://telemetry.mozilla.org/new-pipeline/dist.html|telemetry.mozilla.org (TMO) Measurement Dashboard}}, one of Mozilla's public-facing telemetry websites for beta/nightly Firefox users. Data may be made available elsewhere.<ref>{{URL|https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/firefox-dev/c/kNuk69n7nhc}}</ref>
* December 11: {{URL|https://3dtotal.com/tutorials|3dtotal}}, a platform for digital art featuring tutorials and galleries contributed by users, is getting rid of those things, having made the sections read-only on {{datetime|2023-09-01}}.<ref>{{URL|https://store.3dtotal.com/blogs/news/3dtotal-is-undergoing-a-refresh}}</ref>
* December 1: [[Google]] will start deleting inactive accounts under its {{URL|1=https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en|2=new inactive accounts policy}}, taking down shared [[Google Photos]], [[Blogger]] (aka Blogspot), [[Google Docs]], and more.<ref>{{URL|https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-delete-inactive-accounts-starting-december-2023-05-16/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.techspot.com/news/100796-google-begin-deleting-millions-inactive-accounts-december.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2023/11/11/gmail-and-photos-content-deletions-will-start-december-1-google-says/}}</ref>
* November 30: {{URL|https://snowtrace.io/|SnowTrace}}, a popular blockchain explorer tool will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://coinmarketcap.com/academy/article/avalanche-blockchain-explorer-snowtrace-to-shut-down-etherscan-powered-website}}</ref>
* November 14: {{URL|https://he-man.org|He-man.org}}, a forum related to He-Man which has been running for 23 years will shut down on November 14th. <ref>{{URL|https://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/showthread.php?285395-The-He-Man-Org-forums-will-close-on-Tuesday-November-14-2023}}</ref>
* November 9: {{URL|https://jezebel.com/|Jezebel}}, another outlet by G/O Media<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/nov/09/jezebel-news-shut-down-layoffs-go-media}}</ref>
* October 29: {{URL|http://www.mojforum.si/|MojForum.si}}, a Slovenian free forum host<ref>{{URL|http://www.mojforum.si/brezplacno-gostovanje-novice-0-32.html}}</ref>
* October 28: The new owner of {{URL|https://www.multisim.com/|Multisim Live}} online circuit simulator is making its service "more accessible with new pricing tiers", therefore an unknown number of users must "upgrade to a paid tier to maintain access", according to an email notification.
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons.
* October 1: {{URL|https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/|Oryx}}, a news blog with an affinity for military operations and state affairs, will be shutting down after 10 years because of personal reasons.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1670723829713215489}}</ref>
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.uktrainsim.com/|UKTrainSim}}, a long-running website with files for train simulation games, mostly Microsoft Train Simulator<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.uktrainsim.com/index2.php?form_news=readreport&form_report=1937}}</ref>
* <s>June 30 2021</s> <s>March 31 2021</s><ref>{{URL|https://support.webs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048554451-Webs-to-Shut-Down-March-31st-2021}}</ref> August 31: Web host [[Webs]] will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.vistaprint.com/customer-care/help-center/16116844818573/}}</ref>
* August 15: {{URL|https://www.allaccess.com|All Access}}, a music and radio trade publication will be ceasing operations. <ref>{{URL|https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/229534/due-to-severe-financial-headwinds-all-access-will-}}</ref>
* August 11: {{URL|https://www.janlinders.nl/|Jan Linders}}, a Dutch regional supermarket chain that has been bought out by Albert Heijn. All stores are in the process of being remodelled into Albert Heijn supermarkets.<ref>{{URL|https://nos.nl/artikel/2486300-nog-een-lokale-supermarkt-verdwenen-jan-linders-sluit-deuren}}</ref>
* August 1: {{URL|http://www.mudrunnermods.com/|Spintires: MudRunner Mods}}, a site that hosts customizations for the computer games SpinTires, MudRunner, and SnowRunner, has a popup saying "We will sunset this page on August 1, 2023". It says "We're moving to CurseForge!", but searching for any of those three games on CurseForge's site turns up nothing, so it's not clear whether the content will be moved or deleted. (It seems plausible also that there may be similar sites for different games affected, but unsure how to check if that is the case.)
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref>
* July: {{URL|https://trove.nla.gov.au/|Trove}} ([[wikipedia:Trove]], National Library of Australia)<ref>{{URL|https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-2604651/}}</ref>
* July 31: {{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/|Harvard Blogs}}, a WordPress service for people with Harvard email addresses<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/faqs/who-can-blog/}}</ref> will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2023/03/02/blogs-harvard-edu-shutting-down/}}</ref> (The shutdown was originally announced for June 30, but was deferred in favor of making blogs read-only on that date.)
* 'On or before July 24': {{URL|https://archive.ragtag.moe/|Ragtag Archive}}, VTuber's video collection will shut down. They provide a list of videos that no longer exist and a dump of the complete database.<ref>{{URL|https://archive.ragtag.moe/announcement.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/kitsune_cw/status/1661995517805744128}}</ref>
* July 9: TPG's [[ISP Hosting]], will shut down per an email to users. The {{URL|https://support.tpg.com.au/tpg-members-webspace-end-life|shutdown notice}} does not give the exact date.
* July 7: {{URL|https://vulpine.club/|vulpine.club}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, is shutting down due to burnout.<ref>{{URL|https://vulpine.club/@rey/110159033678693673}}</ref>
* July 1: {{URL|https://txti.es/|txti.es}}, which has been creating "fast web pages for everyone" since 2014 is shutting down on July 1 due to "bad actors". People can create their own page with their own unique URL and add text to it. Although as of September 3, 2023, the site is still up.
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.
* June (under review for possible extension): [[Chrome Web Store]]: "All existing Manifest V2 items with visibility set to Public at that time will have their visibility changed to Unlisted." <ref>{{URL|https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/}}</ref>
* <s>June 30</s>: {{URL|https://soylentnews.org/|SoylentNews}}, a fork of Slashdot created in the early 2010s, was to shut down<ref>{{URL|1=https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/05/20/0343254}}</ref> but might live on<ref>{{URL|1=https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/05/26/2114210}}</ref>.
* June 28: {{URL|https://yandex.ru/q/|Яндекс Кью}} (Yandex.Q) went read-only but will stay online as a 'museum'<ref>{{URL|https://yandex.ru/q/museum/}}</ref> (for now).
* June 27: {{URL|https://www.irl.com/|IRL}} IRL, a social media app intended to allow young people to connect and discover events shutdown at 12PM PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/irl-shut-down-fake-users/}}</ref>
* May 15: [[Imgur]] change their terms of service 'focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content'.<ref>{{URL|https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-}}</ref>
* <s>April 13 or 14</s>: [[Docker Hub]] was going sunset and make inaccessible all Free Teams until they realised what a bad idea that was.
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref>
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}
* 'early April': {{URL|https://www.kaotic.com/|Kaotic}} (unless a buyer is found)<ref>{{URL|https://www.kaotic.com/video/145157_Kaotic_is_Coming_to_an_End}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.anaitgames.com/foros|AnaitGames's forums}}, Spanish forums for video games launched in 2006.<ref>Notice on {{URL|https://www.anaitgames.com/foros}}: 'Los foros de AnaitGames dejarán de estar disponibles el próximo 28 de febrero. Muchas gracias por este tiempo. En adelante, las comunidades oficiales de la web vivirán en Patreon y Discord.'</ref>
* February 23: [[Issuu]] will start enforcing new limits on free accounts, rendering some content inaccessible.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/10fg8f3/issuu_making_changes_that_will_make_a_lot_of/}}</ref>
* January 31: [[Zhihu|Zhihu Circles]], Zhihu Circles will be terminating access to the circle's homepage on 1/31/23, {{URL|https://www.zhihu.com/club/explore|The Explore page}} will likely stop working by 12/26/22 according to the published timeline. All direct link to posts will stop working by 3/27/23 and the ability to download your posts will be disabled<ref>{{URL|https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/585385202}}</ref>
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]


=== 2022 ===
=== 2022 ===
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref> <ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref>
* Unknown: {{URL|http://ksco.com/|KSCO}} radio station from San Francisco, along with its {{URL|http://zbsradio.com/|ZBS Radio Network}} site, which hosts past recordings. The station was put up for sale without success, and the owner intended to abandon it at the end of the year.
* End of 2022: {{URL|https://www.eastbay.com/}}, closing after 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nostalgic-sports-retailer-eastbay-closing-233749431.html}}</ref>
* 'By early 2023': {{URL|https://www.bulletin.com/|Bulletin}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23387510/facebook-meta-bulletin-newsletter-substack-shutdown}}</ref>
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref>
* (Unknown): [[Zenly]] On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Zenly as part of a restructuring. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330123/snap-layoffs-announced-original-shows-canceled-games-mini-apps}}</ref>
* (Unknown): [[Voisey]] On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Voisey as part of a restructuring. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330123/snap-layoffs-announced-original-shows-canceled-games-mini-apps}}</ref>
* End of 2022 or before: The {{URL|https://forum.tek.com/|Tektronix Technical Forums}} will be "decomissioned".<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.tek.com/viewtopic.php?f=583&p=291164}}</ref>
* Throughout late 2021 through 2022?: [[Vimeo]] emails users in the top 1% of bandwidth usage telling them to pay thousands of dollars per year to continue using the service.
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref>
* Soon™ as of December 25: [[CurseForge|CurseForge's]] {{URL|https://authors-old.curseforge.com/forums|Authors}} ({{URL|https://authors.curseforge.com/forums|previous location}}) and {{URL|https://minecraft.curseforge.com/|Minecraft}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://authors-old.curseforge.com/forums/forums-deprecating-soon-click-to/267743-forums-deprecating-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://minecraft.curseforge.com/forums/forums-deprecating-soon-click-to/267742-forums-deprecating-soon}}</ref>
* December 1: {{URL|https://webryblog.biglobe.ne.jp/|WebryBlog}}, a famous Japanese blogging service, will start deleting its website in order to terminate its service on January 31, 2023. The domain of each website consists of "*.at.webry.info".<ref>{{URL|https://info.at.webry.info/202201/article_2.html}}</ref>
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref>
* November 1: Old (roughly, older than 2 years) apps on the Google Play Store cease being discoverable in search or installable on newer operating systems<ref>{{URL|https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/expanding-plays-target-level-api-requirements-to-strengthen-user-security.html}}</ref>
* <s>September 30</s> sometime later<ref>{{URL|https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/604}}</ref>: The FluxBB {{URL|https://forum.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetMap forums}} will be "retired" in favor of {{URL|https://community.openstreetmap.org|a Discourse instance}}.
* August: {{URL|https://lightform.com/|Lightform}}, a manufacturer of projection mapping equipment<ref>{{URL|https://guide.lightform.com/hc/en-us/articles/4417512435731-Sunset-FAQ}}</ref>
* June 30: Educational publisher McGraw Hill will shut down Glencoe.com 'and all of its associated sites"<ref>{{URL|http://glencoe.mheducation.com/}}</ref>. The glencoe.com domain itself had already been retired in 2017<ref>{{URL|http://glencoe.com/}} after getting past the retirement notice</ref>, but the content continued to be available under glencoe.mheducation.com.
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref>
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS (excluding for Enterprise and Education customers, which will remain supported until at least January 2025). <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref> <ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/extending-chrome-app-support-on-chrome.html}}</ref>
* <s>'Summer'</s> July 7: {{URL|https://www.miniclip.com/|Miniclip}} web game platform<ref>{{URL|https://support.miniclip.com/hc/en-us/articles/5091169897617}}</ref>
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."
* <s>April 29</s> (only some links may be removed now): [[GitHub]], with a lead time of only 4 days, will shut down their git.io URL shortener.<ref>{{URL|https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-25-git-io-deprecation/}}</ref>
* April 1: [[Coub]]
* April 1 <s>March 24</s> <s>March 10</s>: {{URL|https://bugs.python.org/|Python's bug tracker}} (BPO) will be switched to read-only mode and issues migrated to GitHub.<ref>{{URL|https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-migration-is-coming-soon/13791}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.star.ne.jp/free/|Star Server free}}, a Japanese web hosting service will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.star.ne.jp/free/support/news_detail.php?view_id=2887}}</ref> Some people are working on collecting URL lists {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/webcrow/|here}}.
* March 9: The English version of the online card-trading game [https://www.a3-liber.jp/ A3!] shuts down.<ref>{{URL|https://a-three.fandom.com/wiki/A3!_Wiki}}, notice at top as of January 28; presumably this is repeating information from {{URL|https://twitter.com/MankaiCompanyEN/status/1486258864647548932|an "in-game announcement"}}</ref>
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref>
* "Begining of 2022", apparently January 11<ref>{{URL|https://framemo.org/}}, {{URL|https://framaslides.org/login}}, {{URL|https://framabookin.org/en/}}</ref>: Various services run by the French organization [[Framasoft]]<ref>{{URL|https://alt.framasoft.org/en/}}</ref>


=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===
* December 31: iTunes U<ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a German gaming news site and community, was supposed to shut down, according an announcement on its sibling site {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/|Readmore.de}}.<ref name="readmore.de" /> However, no notice was posted on the site itself, and as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}} it is continuing publication. (4Players previously announced that it would close on {{datetime|2021-10-31}},<ref>{{URL|https://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/Allgemein/3926/2199762/4Players-Mehr_als_14500_Berichte_ueber_200000_News_und_ca_60000_Videos_Das_Magazin_bedankt_sich_fuer_eure_Treue_und_verabschiedet_sich_im_Herbst.html}}</ref> but on {{datetime|2021-11-01}} instead reported that it would be continuing under new ownership.<ref>{{URL|https://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/Allgemein/3926/2200697/4Playersde-In_eigener_Sache_4Playersde_geht_mit_neuer_Fuehrung_weiter.html}}</ref>)
* October 15: The Tor Project will release a new version of the client that drops support for version 2 of Onion Services, effectively rendering them inaccessible once the network upgrades.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref>
* October to November: The Tor Project discontinued support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> The core Tor software stopped supporting them in versions 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, and 0.4.6.8, all released on {{datetime|2021-10-26}};<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> Tor Browser dropped support in version 11.0 on {{datetime|2021-11-08}}.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.
* September 30: Khan Academy will remove their {{URL|https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat|MCAT preparation material}}.<ref>{{URL|https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043801271-Khan-Academy-Courses-to-be-Retired-in-Summer-2020}}</ref>
* September 30: Khan Academy planned to remove its {{URL|https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat|MCAT preparation material}}. (This was originally announced for {{datetime|2021-07-15}}, but later delayed.)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200812104146/https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043801271-Khan-Academy-Courses-to-be-Retired-in-Summer-2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20200812104146/https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043801271-Khan-Academy-Courses-to-be-Retired-in-Summer-2020]</ref> However, it subsequently announced that the course would remain available until 2026.<ref>{{URL|https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/4411586029965-Update-MCAT-is-staying-on-Khan-Academy-for-5-more-years}}</ref>
* "mid 2021": [[Docker Hub]] will start deleting free accounts' 'inactive' images (ones that have not been pushed or pulled in 6 months), comprising almost one third of the total data.<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143588}}</ref> This was originally announced to happen on 2020-11-01 but later delayed.<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hub-image-retention-policy-delayed-and-subscription-updates/}}</ref>
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceased publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref> Still online as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.
* July 1: {{URL|https://oengus.io/Oengus}}, speedrun marathon tracker, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/LYngmiKK}}</ref>
* "mid 2021": [[Docker Hub]] will start deleting free accounts' "inactive" images (those that have not been pushed or pulled in 6 months), comprising almost one third of the total data. This was originally announced for {{datetime|2020-11-01}},<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serve-millions-more-developers-storage/}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200813145030/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq https://web.archive.org/web/20200813145030/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq]</ref> but later delayed.<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hub-image-retention-policy-delayed-and-subscription-updates/}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201022210445/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq https://web.archive.org/web/20201022210445/https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq]</ref> As of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}, promised further announcements have not been made, the "Container Image Retention Policy" page has been deleted, and the pricing page does not mention image retention; it's unclear whether Docker Hub ever pursued this.<ref>{{URL|https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/152#issuecomment-1399177057}}</ref>
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref>
* {{datetime|2021-03-31}}: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], shut down its mobile app and went read-only. "Broadcasts that were shared to Twitter will live on as replays",<ref>{{URL|https://periscope.medium.com/farewell-periscope-164db2742b7c}}</ref> while "Periscope web at periscope.tv, [sic] will remain available as a read-only archive of public broadcasts."<ref>{{URL|https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/periscope-faq}}</ref> Videos are still available on both [https://twitter.com/kayvz/status/730510257261268993 Twitter] and [https://www.pscp.tv/NASA/1eaJbvQMBpeJX periscope.tv/pscp.tv] as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref> <ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref>
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} went read-only. Still online as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.
* May 24: [https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx BT Community Webkit] used by ~1000 UK charities. <ref>https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx</ref>
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by Twitter, shuts down its mobile app as well as new broadcasts. "Broadcasts that were shared to Twitter will live on as replays."<ref>{{URL|https://periscope.medium.com/farewell-periscope-164db2742b7c}}</ref>. "Periscope web at periscope.tv/periscopeco, will remain available as a read-only archive of public broadcasts." <ref>{{URL|https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/periscope-faq}}</ref>.
* March 31: Web host [[Webs.com]] shutting down. <ref>{{URL|https://support.webs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048554451-Webs-to-Shut-Down-March-31st-2021}}</ref>
* 'spring': {{URL|https://www.instructables.com/|Instructables}} will remove their forums, having made them read-only in late 2020.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instructables.com/community/Retiring-the-Forums/}}</ref>
* 'spring 2021': [[Niconico]] will delete metadata (including user comments and title, video description) for deleted videos.<ref>{{URL|http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/141893.html}}</ref>Also, previous comments (you can choose a date and display comments of that date in the past.) will be deleted at the same time (regardless of whether the video is deleted or undeleted).<ref>{{URL|https://ch.nicovideo.jp/nicotalk/blomaga/ar1955376}}</ref>
* February 9: The main website of the [[Halo]] franchise is shutting down almost 9 years after having been made read-only in March 2012.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50006}}</ref>
* February 4: {{URL|https://connect.unity.com/|Unity Connect}}, official community platform for the Unity game engine<ref>{{URL|https://connect.unity.com/learn-more}}</ref> 'Some features, e.g. posting new content, creating job posts, will be locked prior to this date.'
* February 1: {{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com//|Fantasy Flight Games Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/313578-ffg-forum-shutdown/}}</ref>
* February 1: [[Chrome Web Store]] shuts down payment system for paid extensions, having disabled free trials on 2020-12-01. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21451111/google-paid-chrome-extension-monetize-shut-down-end}}</ref> <ref>https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation</ref>
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.9lives.be/|9lives}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.9lives.be/news/telenet-stopt-na-31-januari-2021-met-9lives}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://tweakers.net/nieuws/175038/telenet-stopt-in-februari-2021-met-gamewebsite-9lives.html}}</ref>.  Has a forum with ~700k threads.
* January 28: {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/option/upp/|So-net U-Page+}}
* January 15: https://crowdmap.com/ shuts down, offers paid migration of user data to their alternative service https://www.ushahidi.com/.<ref>{{URL|https://www.tekedia.com/running-out-of-funds-the-ushahidi-team-will-be-shutting-down-crowdmap/}}</ref>
* January 15: [[Fast.io]] shuts down for all users.<ref>The shutdown notice is visible on the login page (click the Read More link): {{URL|https://go.fast.io/login}}</ref>
* January 15: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} will reach end-of-life.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=809028}}</ref>
* January 10: [[Parler]]
* January 1: National Gallery of Art's {{URL|https://images.nga.gov/|NGA Images}}, their legacy platform for downloading images
* "early 2021": [[CNET Forums]] ({{URL|https://www.cnet.com/forums/|link}}).  "As of December 1, 2020, the forums will switch to a read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available."<ref>Forum banner text at time of writing.</ref>


=== 2020 ===
=== 2020 ===
* Unknown: {{URL|http://www.planetradio.co.uk/forth|Forth One}} and {{URL|http://www.planetradio.co.uk/hallam|Hallam}} may be being replaced by a new CMS platform in early 2021; other sites like Viking, TFM, Metro-Radio, Hits Radio remain on the same platform.
* Unknown: Hungarian news outlet {{URL|https://index.hu/|Index}} is likely going to collapse after its editor-in-chief got laid off on July 22<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/22/szabolcs_dull_editor_in_chief_index_dismissed/}}</ref> and most editorial staff quit in protest on July 24<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/}}</ref>.
* Unknown: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} will be shutting down as announced on 12 June<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref> but no date has been announced.
* Unknown: Penguin Random House in December 2019 has been [https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pearson-m-a-disposal/pearson-exits-consumer-publishing-with-penguin-random-house-disposal-idUKKBN1YM0OH?il=0 sold to Bertelsmann], which already controlled it. Changes may be coming.
* Unknown: Penguin Random House in December 2019 has been [https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pearson-m-a-disposal/pearson-exits-consumer-publishing-with-penguin-random-house-disposal-idUKKBN1YM0OH?il=0 sold to Bertelsmann], which already controlled it. Changes may be coming.
* Unknown: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, will shut down sometime this year having become read-only on July 5.
* December 14: [[PornHub]] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content disabled all content uploaded from unverified accounts] (meaning accounts that haven't been officially registered/verified to a specific performer or company) without prior announcement, following a dispute with MasterCard and Visa. It is unclear whether accounts will be able to retain content if they go through the verification procedure. MindGeek, the owners of PornHub, own a number of other large sites, such as YouPorn, PornHub, Xtube, Tube8 and Thumbzilla, that may be the next to look out for.
* Likely December 31: [[Sploder]], a one-popular flash-based game making website, will be shutting down around the end of December / early January 2021, due to its reliance on the soon-to-be-unsupported Adobe Flash.
* ca. October 9: {{URL|https://downloads.dell.com/|downloads.dell.com}}, Dell's "backup" download site for drivers & Co. in case their (JS-laden) {{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/|support site}} broke.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200929003215/https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/SLN321834]</ref> As of 2022-09-17, it is still online, although it JS-redirects to the JS hell site.
* December 31: Adobe [[Flash]] officially reaches end-of-life and will be disappearing quickly as it gets dropped by browsers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/]</ref>
* February 4: The {{URL|https://mystonline.com/forums/|Myst Online}} and {{URL|http://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}} forums went read-only.<ref>{{URL|1=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29240}}</ref> Both were to have shut down completely on 16 June 2020 in favor of static archives; in fact, the Cyan forums remained online until March 2021 (it's unclear whether any official static archives are available) and the Myst Online forums are still online as of 2022-09-17.
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting site and community<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3734&pid=151087#pid151087}}</ref>
* December 31: [[Endomondo]], a workout tracker app with optional social networking features, shuts down. Users can contact support for a copy or portability of their data until March 31, 2021.
* December 31: {{URL|https://gamestarmechanic.com|Gamestar Mechanic}} will shut down as Adobe Flash is being discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/GamestarMech/status/1310993121220714496}}</ref>
* December 14: [[PornHub]] has just [https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content disabled all content uploaded from unverified accounts (meaning accounts that haven't been officially registered/verified to a specific performer or company) without prior announcement, following a dispute with MasterCard and Visa]. As of yet, it is unclear wherever accounts will be able to retain content if they go through the verification procedure. Also worth noting that MindGeek, the owners of PornHub, own a number of other large sites, such as YouPorn, PornHub, Xtube, Tube8 and Thumbzilla that may be the next to look out for.
* <s>November 1</s>: {{URL|http://furnation.ru/|FurNation.ru}}, a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, was announced to shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49011/}}</ref> A community effort to save the site<ref>{{URL|http://jade.furnation.ru/journal/49054/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49057/}}</ref> managed to raise enough money to keep the site alive until at least February as of 2020-10-30<ref>{{URL|http://stormwind.furnation.ru/journal/49063/}}</ref>.
* ca. October 9: {{URL|https://downloads.dell.com/|downloads.dell.com}}, Dell's "backup" download site for drivers & Co. in case their (JS-laden) {{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/|support site}} broke.<ref>{{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN321834}}</ref> As of 2021-01-04, it is still online, although it JS-redirects to the JS hell site.
* September 15: {{URL|https://www.rakuten.com/shop/|Rakuten Americas marketplace}}.<ref>{{URL|https://support.rakuten.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047189271}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/rakuten-is-shuttering-the-online-shop-formerly-known-as-buy-com/}}</ref>  (It's unclear whether the marketplace part of the website will completely disappear, but content deletion is very likely.)
* "mid-2020": [[Microsoft]] will retire [[MSDN]] and [[TechNet]] in favour of their new Q&A platform.<ref>{{URL|https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-replacing-msdn-and-technet-forums-with-microsoft-q-a/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-microsoft-qanda}}</ref>
* August 21: {{URL|https://www.intomore.com/|INTO}}<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/SerenaSonoma/status/1286777944803811335}}</ref>
* August 3: [[Microsoft]] is removing all SHA-1-signed content from the [[Microsoft Download Center]]<ref>{{URL|https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/sha-1-windows-content-to-be-retired-august-3-2020/ba-p/1544373}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-remove-all-windows-downloads-signed-with-sha-1/}}</ref>
* July 30: The Center for Election Science's {{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/|forums}} is planned to become read-only and will shut down around 1 Jan 2021<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/archiving-the-forum-july-30th/697}}</ref>. Discussions about transferring it to the community instead<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/alternatives-to-the-ces-forum/699}}</ref> failed<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720}}</ref>. A successor forum by the community is being launched at {{URL|http://votingtheory.com/}}.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/replacement-forums-will-be-at-votingtheory-com/757}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-forum-launch-project/788}}</ref> The {{URL|https://groups.google.com/d/forum/electionscience|Center's Google Group}} will also be deleted.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720/3}}</ref>
* June 16: {{URL|https://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}}, the parent of {{URL|https://mystonline.com|Myst Online}}, will be shutting their forums down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1608}}</ref>
* June 16: {{URL|https://mystonline.com/forums/|Myst Online}} will be closing their forums.<ref>{{URL|1=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29240}}</ref>
 


=== 2019 ===
=== 2019 ===
* Unknown: [[Linux Journal]] (unmaintained since August 7)
* Unknown <s>December 11</s>: [[Twitter]] will begin purging inactive accounts.<ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019.png]]</ref><ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019 2.png]]</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1199264642264190976}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984328/twitter-removing-inactive-accounts-usernames-available-date}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1199459588594176000}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1199777312054493184}}</ref>
* Unknown <s>December 11</s>: [[Twitter]] will purge inactive accounts.<ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019.png]]</ref><ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019 2.png]]</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1199264642264190976}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984328/twitter-removing-inactive-accounts-usernames-available-date}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1199459588594176000}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1199777312054493184}}</ref>
* October 10: {{URL|https://splinternews.com/|Splinter News}} (G/O Media) ceases publication. The future of the website is unclear.<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/splinter-news-shutting-down}}</ref> Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.
* September 20: Mozilla software community site [http://mozillazine.org/ mozillaZine]'s admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen.<ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3055133}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3059877}}</ref> The forums and wiki are both still online and functional as of 2022-09-11; however, the admin is unreachable and the domain expires on 2026-09-06.<ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3067832}}</ref>
* <s>December 12</s>: {{URL|https://www.storywars.net/|Story Wars}}, a collaborative story writing platform, <s>will shut down.<ref>Announcement on {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/StoryWars/photos/2822038917826805/|Facebook}} and {{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/B49tRdVD4C-/|Instagram}}</ref></s> will remain online and is supposedly safe for five years per an announcement in the forums on the site dated 23 Nov.<ref>{{URL|https://www.storywars.net/forums/1/63717|"Story Wars is Saved (officially)"}} (login required, {{URL|https://transfer.notkiska.pw/inline/TYxCO/screenshot_storywars.net_forums_1_63717_2019-12-14.png|screenshot}})</ref>
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* <s>December 9</s>: [[SoundCloud]] will '''not'''<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/1202688115636346880}}</ref> introduce new limits for the free accounts, which would likely have lead to deletions due to no longer being able to upload new songs without paying.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e5jb9u/soundcloud_is_quietly_forcing_out_a_majority_of/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039149474-FAQ-SoundCloud-s-free-upload-limit}}</ref>
* June 1: {{URL|http://www.supertopo.com/|SuperTopo}}'s {{URL|http://supertopo.com/climbing/forum.php|forums}}, with over 2.2 million posts, went read-only.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3198199}}</ref>. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* October 30 onwards: {{URL|https://deadspin.com/|Deadspin}} (G/O Media) loses its entire editorial staff to resignations after the editor-in-chief was fired. The future of Deadspin is unclear.
* March 30: goo.gl, [[Google]]'s URL shortening service, was frozen, but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref>
* October 10: {{URL|https://splinternews.com/|Splinter News}} (G/O Media) ceases publication. The future of the website is unclear.<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/splinter-news-shutting-down}}</ref>
* September 20: Mozilla software community site [http://mozillazine.org/ mozillaZine]'s admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen; it is currently<sup>[2020-07-02]</sup> unclear when this will happen and for how long the site will remain online after.<ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3055133}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3059877}}</ref>
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being.
* <s>June 16</s>: {{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/|Minecraft Forum}} was going to be frozen<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60727-important-minecraft-forum-archive-announcement}}</ref> but was then sold instead<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning}}</ref>. Its future is currently (August 2019) unclear.
* <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|http://www.supertopo.com/|SuperTopo}}'s {{URL|http://supertopo.com/climbing/forum.php|forums}} with over 2.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3198199}}</ref>. As of 2020-07-02, they are still online but appear to be read-only.
* March 30: goo.gl, [[Google]] froze their URL shortening service but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref>


=== 2018 ===
=== 2018 ===
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus]. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus].
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref> Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref>
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.
* August 15: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} went read-only.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=235339}}</ref>
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref>
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref>


=== 2017 ===
=== 2017 ===
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2020-07-02.
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
* Date unknown: {{URL|https://www.sascommunity.org/|sasCommunity.org}} published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned. On March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode; it remains online as of 2020-07-02.


=== 2016 ===
=== 2016 ===
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2020-07-02, the site is still online.
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2022-09-11, the site is still online.
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref>
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref> As of 2022-09-11, the boards were still online.


== Dead as a Doornail ==
== Dead as a Doornail ==
=== 2024 ===
* {{datetime|2024-02-02|09:37:41}}: {{URL|https://www.virusradar.com/}} was shut down and redirected to ESET research. {{Job|8jihx7gafms2izf34xiu1f2b}} downloaded about 1700 search pages from the start and end for all queries, e.g. https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=1 through https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=1700 and https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=35900 through https://www.virusradar.com/en/search/all/en?page=37651. Most content should have been found through other search queries, but the job is likely incomplete.
* February 1: {{URL|https://themessenger.com/|The Messenger}}, a news site, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/business/media/messenger-closing-down.html}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240131001059/https://themessenger.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240131001059/https://themessenger.com/]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240201001548/https://themessenger.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240201001548/https://themessenger.com/]</ref>
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref>
* January 7: {{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/|Ponychan}}, an old My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic imageboard website, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/chat/res/112453.html}}</ref>
* January 5: {{URL|https://www.freddi.nl/|Freddi}} this was a journey registration for commuting focused on small business. in the end of 2023 the Louwman Groep decided to stop this service do to low adoption rate. and also offering a a similar services for mid to big business called reisbalans
* January: {{URL|https://bear.community}}, a "18+ only Mastodon server for bears, chubbies and chasers" shut down due to non-payment of hosting costs alongside the owner being unreachable. It was brought back online on {{datetime|2024-01-01}} for 30 days so that existing users could export their data<ref>{{URL|https://bear.community/@bootblackcub/111683360231381213}}</ref> but disappeared again early on or before {{datetime|2024-01-25}}.
* January 2: {{URL|https://www.peepsandcompany.com/|Peeps and Company}}, retail website.<ref>{{URL|https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment/2023/12/peeps-retail-website-is-shutting-down-but-bethlehem-born-confections-are-still-available.html}}</ref>
* January<ref>Between {{datetime|2024-01-01}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20240101124551/https://www.dkfindout.com/] and {{datetime|2024-01-05}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20240105095418/https://www.dkfindout.com/]</ref>: {{URL|https://www.dkfindout.com/|DK Find Out!}}
=== 2023 ===
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} shut down. This was one of the very few reliable sources about D&D online available in Japanese.<ref>{{URL|1=https://twitter.com/HJ_DnD/status/1720405657298591816}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, went offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection
* December 31: {{URL|https://photography-on-the.net/}} is shutting down. Originally, this was going to happen by the end of 2023<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1530921}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://petapixel.com/2023/10/17/the-photography-on-the-net-forums-is-shutting-down/}}</ref>, then a surge in donations shifted the date to early February 2024 a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>, but then the site shut down at the end of 2023 anyway.
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref>
* December 28: {{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/|Urban Decay}}, a cosmetics store, ceased taking orders.<ref>{{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/en_GB/closure-announcement.html}}</ref>
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref>
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref>
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref>
* November 19: The old [https://v3rmillion.net/ V3rmillion], a mainly [[Roblox]] exploiting forum, was taken off on November 19th around 22:16 UTC, six days after selling their domain. The forum has been reset via the change of ownership. It is now controlled by the team who have created [https://bloxflip.com/ Bloxflip], Robot, [https://blox.land/crusher BloxCrusher], CaptchaRobot, [https://blox.land/ Bloxland] and [https://rblx.app/ RblxApp].<ref>{{URL|https://v3rmillion.net/threads/welcome-to-the-new-v3rmillion.19/}}</ref>
* November 8: {{URL|https://www.omegle.com/|Omegle}}, a free online chat website that allowed users to randomly socialize with others one-on-one without the need to register. The owner shut down the service suddenly, citing attacks against the service based on the behaviour of a malicious subset of users.
* November 4: {{URL|https://forum.brickset.com/|Brickset Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/106839/advance-notice-of-forum-closedown-november-2023}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/1356942/notice-of-forum-closure-4th-november-2023}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.brickset.com/discussion/1356993/forum-closure-tomorrow-4th-november-thank-you-everyone}}</ref>
* November 3: {{URL|https://forum.xentax.com/index.php|XeNTaX}}, a modding and game research forum, went offline.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281}}</ref> The deadline was initially the end of the year<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231006230132/https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281</ref>, then shifted to "by December 1st"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231013225610/https://forum.xentax.com/index.php</ref>, and then, after putting everything behind a login wall with no registration option, shifted again to "by November 3"<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231030185131/https://forum.xentax.com/index.php</ref>.
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref>
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref>
* October 31: The World of Warships forums ({{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.com/|North America}}, {{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/|Europe}}, and {{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.asia/|Asia}}) were shut down in favour of Discord.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/268018-forum-shutdown-%E2%80%93-july-28-2023/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/announcement/201-forum-shutdown-2872023/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.worldofwarships.asia/topic/60091-official-forum-will-be-closed-permanently/}}</ref>
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref>
* October 21: {{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/|Pinstriped Prospects}}, a blog covering the New York Yankees minor league system, shut down 2 weeks after the announcement due to low readership.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/pinstriped-prospects-website-shutting-down-65038/}}</ref>
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]
* October: {{URL|https://filewarez.tv/|FileWarez}}, a Brazilian discussion forum on file sharing that had been online since 2004, was forced to shut down by IFPI.<ref>{{URL|https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-shut-down-filewarez-brazils-oldest-pirate-forum-231026/}}</ref>
* October<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230925001110/https://www.zeroshell.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230925001110/https://www.zeroshell.org/]</ref> to December<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20231216160012/http://www.zeroshell.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231216160012/http://www.zeroshell.org/]</ref>: [[Zeroshell]] went offline (as originally announced for {{datetime|2021-09-30}}).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210421124021/https://zeroshell.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210421124021/https://zeroshell.org/]</ref>
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} shipped their last DVD. Customers received their final bill in August, and returns were accepted until October 27. The site had a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref>
* September 17: {{URL|https://videos.sapo.pt/|SAPO Vídeos}} removed videos by uploaders that are not SAPO partners.<ref>{{URL|https://pplware.sapo.pt/internet/sapo-videos-deixara-de-permitir-o-upload-de-novos-videos-a-utilizadores/}}</ref>
* September 6: [[Kongregate]] removed the remaining forums that survived the 2020 purge.<ref>Announcement via a {{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/inline/3tV0B/kongregate-cookie|bloody cookie}} that gets rendered by JavaScript on game pages</ref>
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] shut down.<ref>Notice on the {{URL|https://gfycat.com/|homepage}} as of July 1: "The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com".</ref>
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref>
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref>
* August 29: "The {{URL|https://www.stitcher.com/|Stitcher}} apps and web listening service will be shutting down on August 29, 2023" <ref>{{URL|https://stitcher.helpshift.com/hc/en/1-stitcher/section/151-stitcher-farewell-1687885657/|Stitcher Farewell}}</ref>
* August 27: {{URL|http://wowturkey.com/forum/index.php|wowTURKEY}}, a large Turkish photo sharing forum. A moderator announced that it would shut down on 2023-09-01<ref>{{URL|1=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QN_czbXRejQJ:wowturkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D9334812&cd=4&hl=tr&ct=clnk&gl=tr}}</ref>, but the announcement post was short lived, being removed around 16:00Z on 2023-08-23. An [[ArchiveBot]] job ({{Job|3di34a3v4nwzjuejzb82e336n}}) was started for this site and managed to save a good chunk of it before the site was ultimately prematurely shut down around 04:00Z on 2023-08-27.
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://static.skyrock.net/img/skyblog_eol.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709138-ICI-T-LIBRE.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://the-skyrock-team.skyrock.com/3356796874-posted-on-2023-06-22.html}}</ref> The company said it would move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.
* August 16: {{URL|https://anonfiles.com|Anonfiles}}, an "anonymous" file sharing service shut down, citing excessive abuse.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/file-sharing-site-anonfiles-shuts-down-due-to-overwhelming-abuse/}}</ref>
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref>
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shut down all services due to Niantic axing their sponsorship.<ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/13fs6kx/the_end_of_an_era_after_seven_extraordinary_years/}}</ref>
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster
* July 12: [[半次元|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref>
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shut down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref>
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com/|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, shut down. All served images were watermarked with a shutdown notice as of June 13.
* June 30: [[ЯRUS]], a Russian social media site launched in 2020 announced it would be closing its doors on June 30, 2023 at 15:00 Moscow time (12:00 UTC).<ref>{{URL|https://yarus.ru/post/1989728469}}</ref>
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.bit.io/whats-next-for-bit-io-joining-databricks-ace9a40bce0d}}</ref> Database owners can dump their databases and restore them elsewhere.
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref>
* June 28: [[Niconico#Game_Atsumaru|Game Atsumaru (ゲームアツマール)]], part of [[Niconico]], shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/183352.html}}</ref> Creators have been given the ability to download their games. A replacement game hosting service was to launch in April.
* June 27: {{URL|https://www.irl.com/|IRL}} a social network/instant messaging platform went offline at 12 PM PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/irl-shut-down-fake-users/}}</ref>
* June 27: [[Tiki]]
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} were migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref>
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://ebc.egloos.com/8780}}</ref> Former users were given the option to request a data export until December 18.<ref>{{URL|https://egloosbackup.egloos.com/}}</ref>
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref>
* June 5: {{URL|https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online|Pokémon Trading Card Game Online}}<ref>{{URL|https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406895467668-Pok%C3%A9mon-TCG-Online-Sunset-Information}}</ref>
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref>
* "May": {{URL|https://gimplearn.net/}}, a forum for the GIMP image-editing program will not be renewed "sometime in May" <ref>{{URL|1=https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3367}}</ref>
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, closed.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref>
* May 31: {{URL|https://splice.com/features/studio|Splice Studio}}, a Google-Docs-like cloud backup, versioning, and collaboration service used by music producers to store and share their projects, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://splice.com/blog/studio-shutdown/}}</ref>
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref>
* May 8: Github Team Discussions were deprecated.<ref>{{URL|https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-08-sunset-notice-team-discussions}}</ref> The API will be deprecated at April 30 or at some later point in time.
* May 8, 00:00 UTC: {{URL|https://spinrilla.com/|Spinrilla}}, following a legal battle with music labels<ref>{{URL|https://torrentfreak.com/spinrilla-will-shut-down-and-pay-50m-piracy-damages-to-music-labels-230504/}}</ref>
* April/May: {{URL|https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/forum-closure-fa-discord-coming-soon.1682702|Fur Affinity Forums}} went read-only on January 1 after 17 years of operation. It was deleted around the end of April, having been announced for the first quarter of 2023.<ref>{{URL|https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/forum-closure-fa-discord-coming-soon.1682702/page-9#post-7378589}}</ref>
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref>
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref>
* April 30: {{URL|https://forum.telefonino.net/|forum.telefonino.net}}, the forum of an Italian website focused on technology and smartphones, shut down by 2023-04-30.
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref>
* April 25: {{URL|https://www.ubisoft.com/forums/|Ubisoft Forums}}, having migrated from the previous forum software only a year prior, shut down in favour of Discord.<ref>{{URL|https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/connectivity-and-performance/article/future-of-the-ubisoft-forums/000104545}}</ref>
* April 24: {{URL|https://www.tianya.cn|天涯社区 (Tianya Club)}},one of the most popular Internet forums in China, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3218568/pioneering-internet-portal-tianyacn-goes-dark-triggering-nostalgia-among-chinese-netizens}}</ref>
* April 20: {{URL|https://paper.li|Paper.li}}, a homepage and newsletter hosting service, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://blog.paper.li/2023/03/16/saying-goodbye/}}</ref>
* April 15: {{URL|https://grex.org/|Grex}} shut down: "The Grex system will be permanently shut down and cease operation on April 15, 2023. This is due to lack of staff support and other reasons. See ya.". Hosts user websites on ~tilde URLs, there is an {{URL|https://grex.org/users.xhtml|index of user websites}}.
* April 15: {{URL|https://www.pinoyexchange.com/|PinoyExchange}}, a Filipino forum site, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.pinoyexchange.com/discussion/961146/pinoyexchange-announcement}}</ref>
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref>
* April 10: {{URL|https://forums.gearsofwar.com/|Gears of War Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.gearsofwar.com/t/sunsetting-gears-of-war-forums/67435}}</ref>
* April 2: [[Scripting Helpers]] decided nobody needs to ask for help anymore. "The current website will be replaced with a static version without any dynamic features."<ref>https://scriptinghelpers.org/blog/sunsetting-scripting-helpers</ref>
* March 31: [[BBoard.de]], a free German forums host<ref>{{URL|https://www.bboard.de/infos.php}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.xa-media.com/forum/news-ankuendigungen-f1/bboard-wird-mit-ende-maerz-2023-eingestellt-t12669.html}}</ref>
* March 31: The GitLab instance {{URL|https://git.codecoop.org/|codecoop}} shut down.<ref>Notice on blog post {{URL|https://so36.net/news/codecoop-migration.html#en}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref>
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.halowaypoint.com/|Halo Waypoint Forums}} were read-only from March 20 and shut down on March 31. Announcement: {{URL|https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/sunsetting-waypoint-forums/566065}}
* March 31: {{URL|https://live.line.me/|LINE LIVE}} and {{URL|https://viewing.live.line.me/|LINE LIVE-VIEWING}} were discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/livepress/archives/13318746.html}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/|QUIC repositories}} (Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc.) on Code Aurora was deleted following their (allegedly poor, lossy) migration to {{URL|https://git.codelinaro.org/explore/|CodeLinaro}} a year earlier. The entirety of source.codeaurora.org was taken down, though only mirrors were remaining apart from the QUIC repositories.
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref>
* March 27: Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57847}}</ref>
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref>
* March 15: {{URL|https://www.sportsshooter.com|SportsShooter}}, a sports photography website, shut down after being online since 2002-06-21<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20230314010850/https://www.sportsshooter.com/news/2789}}</ref>.
* March 15: {{URL|https://www.wirelessadvisor.com/|WirelessAdvisor.com}} along with its {{URL|https://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/|forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/threads/wirelessadvisor-will-shut-down-on-3-15-23.97515/}}</ref>
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref>
* March 8: {{URL|https://www.popjam.com/|Popjam}}<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11b3hlp/popjam_is_shutting_down_on_march_8th/}}</ref>
* March 1: The Gitea instance {{URL|https://devheroes.codes/|Devheros}} was replaced by a different server software.<ref>Notice on pages, e.g. {{URL|https://devheroes.codes/}}</ref>
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.
* March 1: {{URL|https://thebillionscompanion.net/|The Billions Companion}}, a "resource for Billions miscellany, featuring every obscure and arcane cultural reference, searchable by episode, keyword or the character who said it."
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref>
* February 28: {{URL|http://terminal-boredom.com/|Terminal Boredom}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok9x3yuunn/}}: 'Attention former Termbos. The entire site ( archives/blog/termboard/everything) will be permanently going offline at the end of the month. The message board is back open if there's anything there anyone would like to recover/save. Same goes for anything in the reviews/content archives. I'll have a backup saved for posterity, but I think it's time to put Terminal Boredom to sleep. Thanks everyone who was a part of it.', posted by Rich K (@termbo) on 2023-02-13.</ref>
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.whereisthegooglecar.com/}}, a website that allowed users to post sightings of the Google car.<ref>{{URL|https://www.whereisthegooglecar.com/}}</ref>
* February 28: {{URL|http://yeeshkul.com/|Yeeshkul}}, a Pink Floyd fan community that had existed since 2006<ref>{{URL|http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?50908-Yeeshkul-closing}}</ref>
* February 15: {{URL|https://forums.tcm.com/|Turner Classic Movies Message Boards}} After nearly 20 years, it froze content on Nov 30, 2022 and closed completely Feb 15, 2023.<ref>{{URL|https://forums.tcm.com/topic/271979-tcm-message-boards-sunsetting-in-november-2022/}}</ref>
* February 1: {{URL|http://forum.halomaps.org/|Halo Maps Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/HaloCEmaps/status/1614852664570806275}}</ref>, although a static dump with partial data (e.g. usernames) removed and different URLs is staying online at least for the time being.
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref>
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref>
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref>
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.
* January 31: WebryBlog shut down and access to all blogs updated since January 18, 2022 ended. <ref>{{URL|https://support.at.webry.info/202209/article_faq_054.html}}</ref>
* January 28: {{URL|https://www.costcophotocenter.com/|Costco Photo Center}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.costcophotocenter.com/docs/en-us/Shutterfly-Costco-FAQs.pdf}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.costcophotocentre.ca/|Costco Photo Centre Canada}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.costcophotocentre.ca/docs/en-ca/Shutterfly-Costco-EN.pdf}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.costcodvd.com/|Costco DVD}} and {{URL|https://www.costcobusinessprinting.com/|Costco Business Printing}}
* January 23: {{URL|https://forum.mywot.com/|Web of Trust (MyWOT) Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.mywot.com/general-discussion-f3/forum-closure-t99713.html}}</ref>
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]
* January 18: [[Revue]], a newsletter service bought by Twitter in early 2021<ref>{{URL|http://help.getrevue.co/en/articles/6819675-we-ve-made-the-difficult-decision-to-shut-down-revue}}</ref>
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]
* January 11: {{URL|https://tweakblogs.net}}<ref>{{URL|https://tweakers.net/plan/3726/we-nemen-afscheid-van-tweakblogs.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/73986918#73986918}}</ref>
* January: The {{URL|https://bfriends.brigitte.de/foren/|forums}} for Brigitte, a German women's magazine, went read-only on 2021-12-14.<ref>{{URL|https://www.brigitte.de/informationen-zur-schliessung-der-brigitte-community-13097262.html}}</ref> No plans for deletion were announced, but the forums were deleted in January 2023.
* January 1: {{URL|https://sourcehut.org/|SourceHut}} removed "cryptocurrency- or blockchain-related projects"<ref>{{URL|https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurrency/}}</ref>
* January ('start of [2023]'): {{URL|https://forums.webosnation.com/|webOS Nation Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.webosnation.com/webosnation-com-site-news-feedback-help/332906-sunsetting-webos-nation-forums.html}}</ref>
=== 2022 ===
* End of December: {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/|GeoLog Project}}, a website for collection projects, such as Geocities in Japan, shut down. The GeoLog Project was previously thrown into Archivebot, but had been suspended for some reason (id:7dv1ztme3pksk96o7m168n1l3). Also, there were some pages that cannot be reached from the top page and can be reached by adding geolog.mydns.jp/ to the head of the URL list like {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/maho/all_20200326.txt|this}}.
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting community<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3934&pid=152169#pid152169}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information.  Owner says they will shut down December 31st.
* December 31: [[V Live]]
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website. Its banner was on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/
* December 6: {{URL|https://www.hellmoo.org/}}, a MUD/MOO, associated with one of the very first (LambdaMOO), described on http://archive.today/2022.12.08-211249/https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/HellMOO
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.
* November 30: One of the bigger remaining Czech freehosts, [[Sweb.cz]], closed down by the end of November. {{URL|https://www.zive.cz/clanky/bezplatny-webhosting-od-seznamu-konci-na-presun-stranek-z-swebu-jinam-mate-cas-do-konce-listopadu/sc-3-a-218869/default.aspx|Article on Živě.cz}})
* November 30: {{URL|http://blog.siol.net/|Blogos}}, a Slovenian blogging service operated by the ISP Telekom Slovenia, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.uporabnastran.si/2022/11/20/siol-ukinja-bloge-blogos-blog-siol-net-siol-bo-bloge-na-domeni-siol-net-ukinil-30-11-2022}}</ref>
* November 30: {{URL|https://www.uchinokomato.me/|uchinokomato.me}}, a Japanese character art site, announced on August 18 that they will be shutting down service.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220912084205/https://www.uchinokomato.me/closing</ref>
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.crunchyroll.com/forum|Crunchyroll forums}} and other "legacy website features" going away.  "Launched in 2006, the forums have had over a million forum threads created and countless memories made!"<ref>{{URL|https://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-1076652/announcement-forum-legacy-features-going-away-on-november-1st-2022}}</ref>
* October 30: {{URL|https://www.programmableweb.com/|ProgrammableWeb}} shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20221010220313/https://www.programmableweb.com/news/programmableweb-being-retired/brief/2022/10/10</ref> The site started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.mulesoft.com/programmableweb}} in January or February 2023, and the domain stopped resolving in July 2023.
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref>
* Mid-September<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220905175645/https://spectrum.chat/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220905175645/https://spectrum.chat/]</ref> to early October<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20221015131545/https://spectrum.chat/ https://web.archive.org/web/20221015131545/https://spectrum.chat/]</ref>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a developer community platform, died. Having been bought by Microsoft, it announced plans to go read-only in favor of GitHub Discussions on {{datetime|2021-08-10}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210209223456/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5 https://web.archive.org/web/20210209223456/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5]</ref> (later pushed back to {{datetime|2021-08-24}})<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210812201409/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5 https://web.archive.org/web/20210812201409/https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5]</ref>; although the announcement promised "no 404s or lost internet history", Spectrum began redirecting to GitHub (and old links indeed became 404s) just over a year later.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref>
* August 31: {{URL|https://cakes.mu|cakes.mu}}, a Japanese content distribution website (similar to Tumblr or Medium) shut down on August 31st and went read-only on July 31st<ref>{{URL|https://cakes.mu/posts/35370}}</ref>
* <s>August 15</s> August 31: {{URL|https://publiclab.org/|Public Lab}} shut down two of its sites: {{URL|https://mapknitter.org/|MapKnitter}}<ref>{{URL|https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapknitter}}</ref> and {{URL|https://spectralworkbench.org/|SpectralWorkbench}}<ref>{{URL|https://publiclab.org/wiki/spectral-workbench}}</ref>
* August 26: {{URL|https://www.lexico.com/|Lexico}}, a dictionary site powered by Oxford University Press (OUP) dictionaries, closed and started redirecting to Dictionary.com<ref>{{URL|https://www.lexico.com/}}</ref>
* August: {{URL|https://tvwise.co.uk|TVwise.co.uk}}, a blog/website covering UK/US TV, closed on July 28 and went offline sometime in August (rather than staying online for another two months as announced)<ref>{{URL|https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2022/07/after-11-years-tvwise-closes-its-doors/}}</ref>
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref>
* July 19: Gearbox Software took their {{URL|https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/|official forums}} offline, after putting them into Read-Only mode previously, with a 30-day window to "save any content you want to keep before it is closed".
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature, shut down. (The original announcement was for "before summer" of 2021;<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210316095857/http://www.opengrey.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210316095857/http://www.opengrey.eu/]</ref> however, the site remained searchable until March of 2022,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220309151952/http://www.opengrey.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220309151952/http://www.opengrey.eu/]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220512232919/https://opengrey.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220512232919/https://opengrey.eu/]</ref> then promised that search would be "back soon" until July.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220627100351/https://opengrey.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220627100351/https://opengrey.eu/]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220701082529/https://opengrey.eu/ https://web.archive.org/web/20220701082529/https://opengrey.eu/]</ref>) The catalogue remains available in MySQL format {{URL|https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xtf-47w5|from the DANS Data Station for Social Sciences and Humanities}}.
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.reading.am/|Reading}}, a site for sharing web content its users are reading<ref>{{URL|https://writing.reading.am/post/685957022762582016/sunset}}</ref>
* June 30: {{URL|https://vkatsu.jp/|Vkatsu}}, a VR model creation tool, shut down its service.<ref>{{URL|https://vkatsu.jp/v%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E7%B5%82%E4%BA%86%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B/}}</ref> Vkatsu requests to delete the VR models created by Vkatsu and posted on other sites after the service is shut down.
* June 12: {{URL|https://www.hispachan.org/|Hispachan}}, a Spanish-language imageboard, will shut down (after going read-only on May 31).<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Hispachan/status/1531053620694659072}}</ref>
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref>
* June 1: {{URL|https://www.furiffic.com/|Furiffic}}, a furry website, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20220620190249/https://www.furiffic.com/}}</ref>
* May 31<ref>Actually stayed online until at least November</ref>: {{URL|http://anynowhere.com/|AnyNowhere}}, a bulletin board from the early 2000s<ref>{{URL|1=http://anynowhere.com/bb/posts.php?t=412&p=105}}</ref>
* May 31: {{URL|https://blogos.com/|BLOGOS}} a Japanese news site stopped updating its website on March 31.<ref>{{URL|https://blogos.com/feature/blogos_close/}}</ref>
* May 31: {{URL|https://www.goat.at/|g.o.a.t}} Japanese blog service will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.goat.at/information/20211124.html}}</ref>Subdomain of each websites are consists of "*.goat.me".
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.
* May 1: {{URL|https://japanese.engadget.com/|Engadget Japan}} and {{URL|https://jp.techcrunch.com/|TechCrunch Japan}} shut down but stopped updating on March 31.<ref>{{URL|https://www.beboundless.jp/press/corporate-announcement-02-15-2022}}</ref>
* May 1: {{URL|https://www.alexa.com|Alexa.com}} will be retired.<ref>{{URL|https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999|We will be retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022}}</ref>
* April 27: {{URL|https://friends.excite.co.jp/|excite friends}}, a Japanese community service shut down at 15:00 (JST).<ref>{{URL|1=https://friends.excite.co.jp/notice/?type=info&no=172}}</ref>
* April 14: {{URL|https://murobbs.muropaketti.com/}}, a Finnish-language forum run with Xenforo, [https://muropaketti.com/yleinen/murobbs-sulkeminen/ is closed by its parent company].
* April 13: {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|Bethesda Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://bethesda.net/en/article/3nf1F08LHgUEmSt7EqA9ru/bethesda-net-forums-to-be-sunset}} — "Starting on May 24, we will begin the process of closing the forums first by turning Categories to Read-Only. You will no longer be able to post on the forums, but you will have access to all your posts and see all Categories as you normally would. You will have 30 days to save any post contents you wish to keep once the forums are closed. On July 6, we will start archiving smaller, less populated Categories. At this time, you will no longer be able to access these Categories. You will be able to continue conversations on our official Bethesda Discord Server and various game-related Servers."</ref>  This will also remove comments on Bethesda.net Mods.<ref>{{URL|https://bethesda.net/en/article/3nf1F08LHgUEmSt7EqA9ru/bethesda-net-forums-to-be-sunset}} — "Does this impact comments on Bethesda.net Mods? Yes, mod comments are powered by the forums, and will also be shut down. Authors are encouraged to list their social channels or personal Discord server in their mod descriptions. This way, they can continue to engage with players in their preferred online spaces. General mod discussion is welcome on our official Discord servers."</ref> Mod comments disappeared early (before 21 June); most of the forums had vanished by 8 July, but some parts remain as of 14 November.
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}
* March 31: {{URL|http://2style.net/support-end.html|2Style}}, a Japanese web host, shuts down all its free and some of its paid hosting.<ref>{{URL|http://2style.net/support-end.html}} through Google Translate</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://stackoverflow.com/jobs|StackOverflow Jobs}} and its Developer Story companion<ref>{{URL|https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-jobs-developer-story}}</ref>
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.webcrow.jp/|WEBCROW}}, a Japanese web hosting service shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.netowl.jp/news_detail.php?view_id=2886}}</ref> Some people are working on collecting URL lists {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/webcrow/|here}}.
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref>
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref>
* March 14: {{URL|https://switter.at/|Switter}}, a social networking site for sex workers, shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb7vx/switter-the-twitter-for-sex-workers-is-shutting-down}}</ref>
* March 13: {{URL|https://www.origamishop.us/|origamishop.us}}, the Americas Origami Shop.<ref>An email to customers states, "The website will remain active until Sunday, March 13, and starting March 14, visitors will be redirected to the robust European store for all of your origami shopping needs (www.origami-shop.com)."</ref>
* March 11: Feneas {{URL|https://talk.feneas.org/|Discourse}} and {{URL|https://friendica.feneas.org/|Friendica}}<ref>https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt</ref>
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref>
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines
* March 1: Feneas {{URL|https://matrix.feneas.org|Matrix}}, {{URL|https://git.feneas.org|Gitlab}}, {{URL|https://searx.feneas.org|Searx}}, {{URL|https://pad.feneas.org|Etherpad}}, {{URL|https://cloud.feneas.org|Nextcloud}}, and {{URL|https://joindiaspora.com/|Diaspora}} (Joindiaspora) instances. ("On or soon afer" that date for everything but Diaspora) <ref>https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt</ref><ref>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/f605e81053c3013ae6b9002590d8e506</ref>
* March 1: {{URL|https://sheezy.art/|Sheezy.art}}, a site hosting user art, shut down. <ref>{{URL|1=https://sheezy.art/news/updates/2022-01-03/sheezy-art-is-shutting-down}}</ref>
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref>
* End of January: [http://score.royalflare.net RoyalFlare], a popular Touhou Project game replay site up since 2007, [https://twitter.com/Plasmo_STG/status/1477967087381487618 stopped uploads] on January 3rd and "all contents will be deleted at the last day of January 2022", which seems to have happened.
* January 31: Humble's video game subscription service discontinues Linux and macOS support<ref>{{URL|https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/humble-subscription-service-is-dumping-mac-linux-access-in-18-days/}}</ref>
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref>
* January 31: All [[TechnologyGuide]] sites and forums<ref>{{URL|http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.837524/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.76126/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forum.brighthand.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.293929/}}</ref>
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.
* January 28<ref>{{URL|https://hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-bs/20220128#c308947}}</ref> (publicly announced to be an unspecified time in January): {{URL|https://forums.mapletip.com/|MapleTip forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.mapletip.com/index.php?/topic/143030-mapletip-forums-to-be-shut-down-in-january-2022/}}</ref>
* January 17: {{URL|https://forum.chip.de/}}, a German technology forum, went read-only and removed almost all usernames.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.chip.de/discussion/1905133/chip-forum-kuenftig-als-read-only-version}}</ref>
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.
* January 3: {{URL|https://www.onlinekosten.de/forum/}}, a German internet and telecom forum, shut down (after more than 20 years).<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.onlinekosten.de/forum/announcement.php?f=146&a=16}}</ref>
* January 3: {{URL|https://www.router-forum.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.router-forum.de/forum-news/in-eigener-sache-router-forum-de-wird-eingestellt.t75087/}}</ref>
=== 2021 ===
=== 2021 ===
* January 7: [[ISP Hosting|Ziggo's personal webspace]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/internet/webspace}}</ref> went down 10 month after the offical deadline of April,
* December 31: LG shut down the "LG Mobile Developer website".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060]</ref>
* December 31: Reddit Gifts was taken down after its final gift exchange.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts/}}</ref>.
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref>
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.project-imas.com/|project-imas}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.project-imas.com/index.php/topic,2707.0.html}}</ref> will shut down. The forums have been made read-only as of October 12, while the wiki was made read-only on November 1. As of November 12 the wiki data has been used to set up a new wiki at {{URL|https://project-imas.wiki/Main_Page}}.
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">[https://web.archive.org/web/20211213184025/https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211213184025/https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/]</ref>
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster
* December 29: {{URL|https://www.thestandnews.com/|The Stand News}} was shut down in less than a day of announcement due to Hong Kong police raids and arrest of key people.
* November 30: The official website of "i-mode", Japan's feature-phone IP connection service, shut down.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060 https://web.archive.org/web/20211205154032/https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060]</ref>
* November 10 until December 13: [[YouTube]] gradually [[YouTube#Removal_of_public_video_dislikes_.28December_2021.29|removes dislike counts]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts?hl=en}}</ref>
* December 7: Royal Games, website owned by King (creator of Candy Crush) will be shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.royalgames.com/community/fool_entry.jsp?language=en&fid=9593}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://www.royalgames.com/support/browse_faq.jsp?categoryId=142}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-22-king-games-portal-which-birthed-candy-crush-to-close-after-18-years}}</ref>
* End of November: [[Channel 9]] from Microsoft will be partially migrated over to Microsoft Learn <ref>{{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/learntvannouncement}}</ref>
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref>
* November 1: {{URL|https://onlocationvacations.com|OnlocationVacations.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://onlocationvacations.com/2021/10/14/friday-october-15-filming-locations/}}</ref>. Website closed down, Twitter account remains active.
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref>
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref>
* October 30<ref>Announced for 1 November, suddenly disappeared two days early</ref> <s>November 1</s>: [[DemoDrop]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@demodrop/demodrop-will-shut-down-f70900fdee4f}}</ref>
* October 22 <s>ca October 13</s>: {{URL|https://forums.mtgarena.com/|MTG Arena forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-announcements-october-06-2021}}</ref>
* October 21<ref>Announced for July, vanished on 2021-10-21</ref> <s>July</s>: [[CodePlex]]'s read-only archives will be shut down.<ref>Banner on {{URL|https://archive.codeplex.com/}} as of 2021-02-02, added in late January per Wayback Machine snapshots</ref>
* October 21: Weather Underground discontinued its webcam hosting and deleted the webcam data.<ref>{{URL|1=https://support.weather.com/s/article/Webcam-hosting-service-is-discontinued-effective-October-21-2021?language=en_US}}</ref>
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.
* October 13<ref>Announced for 5 November with public API access, then suddenly shut down early</ref> <s>November 5</s>: Social news aggregation site {{URL|https://ruqqus.com/|Ruqqus}}<ref>{{URL|https://ruqqus.com/+Ruqqus/post/dns3/end-of-an-era}}</ref>
* October 12: [[YouTube]] removed the all remaining Discussion tabs on channel pages, affecting channels with 1,000 or fewer subscribers as well as channels which have reached more than 1,000 subscribers within the past week.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/125117248/expanding-community-posts-to-channels-with-500-subscribers-and-removing-the-discussion-tab}}</ref>
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref>
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL shut down all its hosting.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210331084204/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210331084204/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211022053942/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211022053942/https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/]</ref>
* September 20 <s>"after September"</s>: [[YouTube]] will discontinue video attributions pages, which are believed to be the last page remaining on the site that used the old, pre-polymer layout.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468}}</ref>
* September<ref>Announced for August, went into 'Maintenance' on 13 or 14 September and later started returning a closure notice page</ref> <s>August</s>: Supercell, the company behind Clash of Clans and other mobile games, shuttered its {{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/|forums}}, having made them read-only in June.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/showthread.php/1953694-Important-Announcement}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/showthread.php/1956795-Goodbye-Forums-Farewell-Thread}}</ref>
* September<ref>Between [https://web.archive.org/web/20210913032536/https://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-xigmanas/ 13 September] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20210918232954/http://freenas.org:80/features 18 September]</ref> <s>July</s>: {{URL|https://www.freenas.org/|FreeNAS}} is subsumed into {{URL|https://www.truenas.com/|TrueNAS}}, and its website is shut down.<ref>Javascript popup on {{URL|https://www.freenas.org/about/features/}} (or any other non-home page)</ref>
* September 13: [[Google Drive]] files shared before this date via link-sharing became inaccessible except to logged-in users who have already viewed the file.<ref>https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032</ref><ref name="verge link">https://www.theverge.com/google/2021/6/23/22548007/youtube-google-drive-security-link-sharing</ref>
* September 10 (09:00 UTC<ref>{{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/post/372333/12955056/}}</ref>): Forum of {{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/|Eurogamer.net}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/thread/372333}}</ref>
* September 6: {{URL|https://www.23andmeforums.com/|23andMe Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?24536-The-23andMe-Forums-will-be-shut-down-on-September-6-2021}}</ref>
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref>
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.
* Late August to Mid-October: {{URL|http://furnation.ru/|FurNation.ru}}, a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, finally died. Its shutdown was originally announced for 1 November 2020<ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49011/}}</ref>; a community effort to save the site<ref>{{URL|http://jade.furnation.ru/journal/49054/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49057/}}</ref> managed to raise enough money to keep it running for almost another year<ref>{{URL|http://stormwind.furnation.ru/journal/49063/}}</ref>, but ultimately could not afford to repair the server.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211019011521/https://furnation.ru/ https://web.archive.org/web/20211019011521/https://furnation.ru/]</ref>
* August 31: {{URL|http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php|E2BN Myths and Legends}}, an educational website with various myths and legends and their supporting animations<ref>{{URL|http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php}}</ref>
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref>
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|VIVA}}, a Dutch fashion magazine, shut down its main site.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref> {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|Its forums}}, also slated to shut down in the original announcement, received an indefinite reprieve<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/het-forum-blijft-bestaan/list_messages/480071}}</ref> and are still online as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.
* August<ref>Announced for 30 April, but website stayed online without changes until August</ref> <s>April 30</s>: {{URL|https://www.jexia.com/|Jexia}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.jexia.com/en/faq/}}</ref>
* ca. July 30: The Center for Election Science's {{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/|forums}} is planned to become read-only and will shut down around 1 Jan 2021<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/archiving-the-forum-july-30th/697}}</ref>. Discussions about transferring it to the community instead<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/alternatives-to-the-ces-forum/699}}</ref> failed<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720}}</ref>. A successor forum by the community is being launched at {{URL|http://votingtheory.com/}}.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/replacement-forums-will-be-at-votingtheory-com/757}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-forum-launch-project/788}}</ref> The {{URL|https://groups.google.com/d/forum/electionscience|Center's Google Group}} was also deleted.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720/3}}</ref>
* "mid-2020": [[Microsoft]] will retired[[MSDN]] and [[TechNet]] in favour of their new Q&A platform.<ref>{{URL|https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-replacing-msdn-and-technet-forums-with-microsoft-q-a/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-microsoft-qanda}}</ref>
* July 29 or 30: [[Microsoft]]'s Windows Community shut down after 4 years of operation<ref>{{URL|1=https://community.windows.com/en-us/stories/farewell-windows-community}}</ref>.
* July 27: [https://nk.pl/ nk.pl], a Polish social network active since 2006, shut down.<ref>https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/zamkniecie-serwisu-naszaklasapl/hrzlgp7,79cfc278</ref>
* July 23: Unlisted [[YouTube]] videos uploaded before January 1, 2017 were made private.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/114633828/changes-to-unlisted-videos-uploaded-before-2017</ref><ref name="verge link"></ref>
* July (some time in July, scheduled for<ref>{{URL|https://frama.link/}}, {{URL|https://frama.site/}}</ref> July 6): Various services run by the French organization [[Framasoft]]<ref>{{URL|https://alt.framasoft.org/en/}}</ref>
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref>
* July 2: Sony shut down the PlayStation Portable digital stores.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/important-notice/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kotaku.com/sony-closing-playstation-store-on-ps3-vita-and-psp-th-1846575103}}</ref> (Originally, the PlayStation 3 and Vita stores were also going to shut down, but Sony backed off later and announced that those would stay open 'for the foreseeable future'.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/}}</ref>)
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road}} ended online services. The app received an update converting it to an offline version; Union χ retained cutscenes, minigames, and player records, while Dark Road remained playable offline. (Original plans for a May 30 shutdown were delayed.)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210518021246/http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152 https://web.archive.org/web/20210518021246/http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152]</ref>
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref>
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref>
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.
* June 24 15:00(JST) : [[GREE]], a Japanese browser games and micro blog service, shut down its PC version of its website, without carrying over the social networking functionality to its mobile version.<ref>{{URL|https://jp.apps.gree.net/ja/static/page/20210201_pcnotices}}</ref>
* June 22: [[Reddit]] purged almost a million 'dormant' subreddits.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/o18ct9/creating_new_opportunities_for_future_community/}}</ref>
* June 15: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}} shut down its build services in favor of (the paid) {{URL|https://travis-ci.com/|travis-ci.com}}. (The shutdown was originally announced for May 31.) Past build data will remain read-only "for an indefinite period".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173517/https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173517/https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown]</ref>
* June 15: {{URL|https://forums.tesla.com/|The Tesla forums}} closed, deprecated in favor of {{URL|https://engage.tesla.com/|engage.tesla.com}}.<ref>{{URL|https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-engage-tesla-social-platform-forums-dropped/}}</ref>
* June 13: LibertyLand Minecraft server shuts down. The {{URL|https://forums.libertyland.xyz|forums}} appear to already be {{lost}} as of June 10th EST, redirecting to a death page. The website remains accessible at {{URL|https://libertyland.xyz/old}} for the time being. The Discord server's public channels have been archived by [[User:TheTechRobo]] at {{IA item|insert-sad-face-here}}. There is also a website backup at {{IA item|libertyland.xyz}}.
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ended support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref><ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref>
* May 31: {{URL|https://www.hoax-slayer.net/|Hoax Slayer}}, taking 18 years' worth of articles down with it.<ref>{{URL|https://www.hoax-slayer.net/notice-hoax-slayer-is-closing-down/}}</ref>
* May 30: {{URL|http://www.lbpcentral.com/|LBPCentral}}<ref>{{URL|http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?95936-So-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish!}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?95936-So-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish!&p=1257196&viewfull=1#post1257196}}</ref>
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] deleted data associated with accounts using social sign-in which did not log in between {{datetime|2020-01-01}} and {{datetime|2021-05-20}}.<ref>{{URL|https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html}}</ref>
* May 24: [https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx BT Community Webkit], used by ~1000 UK charities.<ref>https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx</ref>
* May 5: {{URL|http://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/|MeriStation Comunidad Zonaforo}}, a Spanish-language video game discussion forum that amassed over 2 million threads and over 45 million posts since 2000, shut down with less than 2 days of lead time.<ref>{{URL|http://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/topic/3006661/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://as.com/meristation/2021/05/03/noticias/1620032457_263442.html}}</ref>
* May 4: [[Yahoo! Answers]] shut down after going read-only on April 20.<ref>{{URL|https://answers.yahoo.com/}} (as of 2021-04-05)</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html}}</ref>
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} shut down its Bintray, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter received a reprieve and will remain read-only indefinitely.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref>
* May<ref>Announced for 'spring', disappeared between April 18 and June 2</ref>: {{URL|https://www.instructables.com/|Instructables}} removed {{URL|https://www.instructables.com/community/forums/|their forums}}, having made them read-only in late 2020.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instructables.com/community/Retiring-the-Forums/}}</ref>
* End of April: {{URL|http://www.aimix-z.com/|aimix-BBS}}, a rental BBS service, shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.aimix-z.com/bbs.cgi?room=sample1}}</ref>
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref>
* April: {{URL|https://www.demi.fi/|Demi.fi}} shut down. Registration was closed on February 2, and the forum went read-only on February 8. Last issue was on April 8.<ref>{{URL|https://www.demi.fi/keskustelu/yllapito-tiedottaa-demifi-sulkeutuu-ja-demi-lehden-ilmestyminen-loppuu-kevaalla-2021}}</ref> Website vanished before April 9.
* End of March: {{URL|https://tokyo.whatsin.jp/|WHAT’s IN? tokyo}}, which publishes many articles about Japanese pop culture, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://tokyo.whatsin.jp/634630}}</ref> (actually stayed online until some point in late June)
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.
* March 27: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} shut down after being read-only for a few years.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=235339}}</ref>
* March 17<ref>Announced for 'early 2021', disappeared between March 16 and 18</ref>: [[CNET Forums]]<ref>Forum banner text at time of writing: "As of December 1, 2020, the forums will switch to a read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available."</ref>
* March 15: [[Niconico]] deleted metadata (including title, description, view count) for deleted videos.<ref>{{URL|http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/141893.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://ch.nicovideo.jp/nicotalk/blomaga/ar1955376}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/147588.html}}</ref>
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.
* February 9: The main website of the [[Halo]] franchise shut down almost 9 years after having been made read-only in March 2012.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50006}}</ref>
* February 4: {{URL|https://connect.unity.com/|Unity Connect}}, official community platform for the Unity game engine<ref>{{URL|https://connect.unity.com/learn-more}}</ref> 'Some features, e.g. posting new content, creating job posts, will be locked prior to this date.'
* February 1: {{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com//|Fantasy Flight Games Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/313578-ffg-forum-shutdown/}}</ref> -- a wget archive (may be incomplete) was saved [https://archive.org/details/community.fantasyflightgames.com here]
* Late January to early April: {{URL|https://www.storywars.net/|Story Wars}}, a collaborative story writing platform, shut down. (The shutdown was originally announced for 12 December 2019<ref>Announcement on {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/StoryWars/photos/2822038917826805/|Facebook}} and {{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/B49tRdVD4C-/|Instagram}}</ref>, then deferred on 23 November 2019 for "five years"<ref>{{URL|https://www.storywars.net/forums/1/63717|"Story Wars is Saved (officially)"}} (login required, [[:File:Screenshot_storywars.net_forums_1_63717_2019-12-14.png|screenshot]])</ref>, which evidently didn't pan out.)
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.9lives.be/|9lives}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.9lives.be/news/telenet-stopt-na-31-januari-2021-met-9lives}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://tweakers.net/nieuws/175038/telenet-stopt-in-februari-2021-met-gamewebsite-9lives.html}}</ref>.  Had a forum with ~700k threads.
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}
* January 15: https://crowdmap.com/ shut down, offered paid migration of user data to their alternative service https://www.ushahidi.com/.<ref>{{URL|https://www.tekedia.com/running-out-of-funds-the-ushahidi-team-will-be-shutting-down-crowdmap/}}</ref>
* January 15: [[Fast.io]] shut down for all users.<ref>The shutdown notice was visible on the login page (click the Read More link): {{URL|https://go.fast.io/login}}</ref>
* January 15: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} reached end-of-life.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=809028}}</ref>
* January 10: [[Parler]]
* January 7: [[ISP Hosting|Ziggo's personal webspace]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/internet/webspace}}</ref> went down, 10 months after the official deadline of April 1.
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid withdrew all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains were frozen and are non-functional for one year and will then be revoked (i.e. become available for registration again) in early 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/}}</ref><ref>Prior to Brexit, only EU residents could register .eu domains. During the negotiations, the rules were changed to also allow EU citizens living abroad to own domains. However, UK residents which do not hold an EU citizenship will lose their eligibility and domains.</ref>
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid withdrew all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains were frozen and are non-functional for one year and will then be revoked (i.e. become available for registration again) in early 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/}}</ref><ref>Prior to Brexit, only EU residents could register .eu domains. During the negotiations, the rules were changed to also allow EU citizens living abroad to own domains. However, UK residents which do not hold an EU citizenship will lose their eligibility and domains.</ref>
* January 1<ref>Actually started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html}} sometime in February or the first half of March.</ref>: National Gallery of Art's {{URL|https://images.nga.gov/|NGA Images}}, their legacy platform for downloading images
* January 1: [[Twitch Sings]] shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed, having started removal on 2020-12-01.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/09/04/twitch-sings-closes-january-1/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/an-introduction-to-twitch-sings}}</ref>
* January 1: [[Twitch Sings]] shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed, having started removal on 2020-12-01.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/09/04/twitch-sings-closes-january-1/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/an-introduction-to-twitch-sings}}</ref>
=== 2020 ===
=== 2020 ===
* December 31: Adobe [[Flash]] officially reached end-of-life and disappeared quickly as it was dropped by browsers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/ https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/]</ref>
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref>
** {{URL|https://www.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting site, shut down, leaving only the community forums<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3734&pid=151087#pid151087}}</ref>
** [[Sploder]], a once-popular Flash-based game making website, went read-only (although the games are not playable without a Flash plugin), and shut down its forums on January 1.
** {{URL|https://gamestarmechanic.com|Gamestar Mechanic}} was to have shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/GamestarMech/status/1310993121220714496}}</ref>; however, they were ultimately able to continue operating using a Flash-sandboxing native app with no gap in service.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201221170619/https://gamestarmechanic.com/about/gsm_app]</ref>
* Unknown <s>July 31</s><ref>Announced for July 31, last WBM snapshot on [2020-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20201020052802/http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/], dead as of 2021-01-04</ref>: {{URL|http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/|Sweet Brokacik}}, a Polish forum
* Unknown <s>July 31</s><ref>Announced for July 31, last WBM snapshot on [2020-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20201020052802/http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/], dead as of 2021-01-04</ref>: {{URL|http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/|Sweet Brokacik}}, a Polish forum
* December 31: [[Endomondo]], a workout tracker app with optional social networking features, shuts down. Users can contact support for a copy or portability of their data until March 31, 2021.
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref>
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref>
* December 31 <s>October 1</s>: [[Nagi]] shut down its five Estonian photo and video hosting sites {{URL|http://nagi.ee/|Nagi}}, {{URL|http://fotoalbum.ee/|Fotoalbum}}, {{URL|http://keskus.ee/|Keskus}}, {{URL|http://toru.ee/|Toru}}, and {{URL|http://album.ee/|Album.ee}} with a total of 25 TB of image and video data.<ref>{{URL|1=http://nagistaja.nagi.ee/?p=125}}</ref>
* December 31 <s>October 1</s>: [[Nagi]] shut down its five Estonian photo and video hosting sites {{URL|http://nagi.ee/|Nagi}}, {{URL|http://fotoalbum.ee/|Fotoalbum}}, {{URL|http://keskus.ee/|Keskus}}, {{URL|http://toru.ee/|Toru}}, and {{URL|http://album.ee/|Album.ee}} with a total of 25 TB of image and video data.<ref>{{URL|1=http://nagistaja.nagi.ee/?p=125}}</ref>
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* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}
* ca October <s>August 31</s>: [[ljplus.ru]], "photos posted on the ljplus.ru service will remain available and will be displayed via links, but the ljplus.ru site will not work."
* ca October <s>August 31</s>: [[ljplus.ru]], "photos posted on the ljplus.ru service will remain available and will be displayed via links, but the ljplus.ru site will not work."
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.sascommunity.org/|sasCommunity.org}} published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned. On March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode. On October 31, the site began redirecting to the SAS Support Communities website.
* October 21: {{URL|https://store.playstation.com/|PlayStation Store}} removed PS3/Vita/PSP listings from web and mobile store. <ref>{{URL|https://kotaku.com/revamped-playstation-store-ditches-ps3-vita-psp-conte-1845385501}}</ref>
* October 21: {{URL|https://store.playstation.com/|PlayStation Store}} removed PS3/Vita/PSP listings from web and mobile store. <ref>{{URL|https://kotaku.com/revamped-playstation-store-ditches-ps3-vita-psp-conte-1845385501}}</ref>
* September 30: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}}'s data was deleted and data exports are no longer possible.<ref>{{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/}} as of 2020-09-03</ref>
* September 30: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}}'s data was deleted and data exports are no longer possible.<ref>{{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/}} as of 2020-09-03</ref>
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref>
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref>
* September 30: {{URL|https://samsungvr.com/|Samsung XR}}, the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref>
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref>
* September 28 <s>August 1</s><ref>Announced for 2020-08-01, shut down between [2020-09-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20200927120015/https://theartistunion.com/] and [2020-09-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20200928132552/https://theartistunion.com/]</ref>: [[The Artist Union]], according to emails sent to users<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/hwayb2/the_artist_union_is_shutting_down_on_august_1_2020/}}</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://server8.kiska.pw/uploads/fe53a864ee2387d3/image.png}}</ref>
* September 28 <s>August 1</s><ref>Announced for 2020-08-01, shut down between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200927120015/https://theartistunion.com/ 2020-09-27] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20200928132552/https://theartistunion.com/ 2020-09-28]</ref>: [[The Artist Union]], according to emails sent to users<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/hwayb2/the_artist_union_is_shutting_down_on_august_1_2020/}}</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://server8.kiska.pw/uploads/fe53a864ee2387d3/image.png}}</ref>
* September 28: [[腾讯微博]] (Tencent Weibo), one of the biggest social media platforms in China with hundreds of millions of users<ref>Notice in {{URL|http://qqpublic.qpic.cn/qq_public/0/0-3009722790-544976304CEC92A2D2AF6372FC1CCE52/0|the background image}} of the website dated 2020-09-04.</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kf.qq.com/faq/200820BFnqeM200820IFZJzA.html}}</ref>
* September 28: [[腾讯微博]] (Tencent Weibo), one of the biggest social media platforms in China with hundreds of millions of users<ref>Notice in {{URL|http://qqpublic.qpic.cn/qq_public/0/0-3009722790-544976304CEC92A2D2AF6372FC1CCE52/0|the background image}} of the website dated 2020-09-04.</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kf.qq.com/faq/200820BFnqeM200820IFZJzA.html}}</ref>
* Unknown<ref>Between 2020-04-06 ({{Job|elm3yi1mjr1jvqndaytxgnrz}}) and 2020-09-22 (discussion in #archivebot)</ref>: {{URL|https://www.superiorpics.com/c/|SuperiorPics Forums}}, a discussion forum about celebrity pictures with about 482k threads and 3.56M posts as of 2019-11-12, was "closing down this month" as of late October 2019, but no date had been communicated, and the owners were open to buying offers.<ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5486588/ANNOUNCEMENT_SP_FORUMS_ARE_CLO}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5487354/Developments}}</ref> It disappeared sometime in 2020 along with the main site.
* Unknown<ref>Between 2020-04-06 ({{Job|elm3yi1mjr1jvqndaytxgnrz}}) and 2020-09-22 (discussion in #archivebot)</ref>: {{URL|https://www.superiorpics.com/c/|SuperiorPics Forums}}, a discussion forum about celebrity pictures with about 482k threads and 3.56M posts as of 2019-11-12, was "closing down this month" as of late October 2019, but no date had been communicated, and the owners were open to buying offers.<ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5486588/ANNOUNCEMENT_SP_FORUMS_ARE_CLO}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5487354/Developments}}</ref> It disappeared sometime in 2020 along with the main site.
* September 15: {{URL|https://www.rakuten.com/shop/|Rakuten Americas marketplace}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://support.rakuten.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047189271}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/rakuten-is-shuttering-the-online-shop-formerly-known-as-buy-com/}}</ref>
* September 9: {{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/|Kotaku UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2020/09/07/farewell-from-kotaku-uk}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/|Gizmodo UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/so-long-gizmodo-uk/}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/|Lifehacker UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2020/09/07/goodbye-lifehacker-uk}}</ref> shut down. The brands are owned by [[G/O Media]] but were operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expired.
* September 9: {{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/|Kotaku UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2020/09/07/farewell-from-kotaku-uk}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/|Gizmodo UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/so-long-gizmodo-uk/}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/|Lifehacker UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2020/09/07/goodbye-lifehacker-uk}}</ref> shut down. The brands are owned by [[G/O Media]] but were operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expired.
* September 1 <s>July 24</s>: Many sections of {{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/liste_categorie.htm|forum.doctissimo.fr}} related to sexuality were deleted after almost 20 years and tens of millions of posts due to a decision by the new owner.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/forum-sexualite-sujet_222117_1.htm}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/nouvelles-importantes-suppression-sujet_222137_1.htm}}</ref>
* September 1 <s>July 24</s>: Many sections of {{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/liste_categorie.htm|forum.doctissimo.fr}} related to sexuality were deleted after almost 20 years and tens of millions of posts due to a decision by the new owner.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/forum-sexualite-sujet_222117_1.htm}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/nouvelles-importantes-suppression-sujet_222137_1.htm}}</ref>
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* August 16: {{URL|http://blog.cz/|Blog.cz}} and {{URL|http://galerie.cz/|Galerie.cz}}<ref>{{URL|http://blog.blog.cz/2007/blog-cz-galerie-cz-se-louci-dekujeme}}</ref>
* August 16: {{URL|http://blog.cz/|Blog.cz}} and {{URL|http://galerie.cz/|Galerie.cz}}<ref>{{URL|http://blog.blog.cz/2007/blog-cz-galerie-cz-se-louci-dekujeme}}</ref>
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref>
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref>
* August 3: [[Microsoft]] removed all SHA-1-signed content from the [[Microsoft Download Center]].<ref>{{URL|https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/sha-1-windows-content-to-be-retired-august-3-2020/ba-p/1544373}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-remove-all-windows-downloads-signed-with-sha-1/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/sha-1-signed-content-retired}}</ref>
* July (unknown date): Insult.Wiki spontaneously converted from a user-contributed MediaWiki-powered wiki to what seems like a self-built mini CMS, discarding at least talk pages and page histories.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20200708155740/http://www.insult.wiki/wiki/Main_Page Before change (2020-07-08)], [http://web.archive.org/web/20200725115255/http://www.insult.wiki/schimpfwort/aaesser After change (2020-07-25)]; [http://web.archive.org/web/20200805010430/http://www.insult.wiki/ Earliest capture of new main page (2020-08-05)]</ref>
* August <s>July 1</s> <s>June 1</s>: [[Bitbucket]] deleted all [[Mercurial]] repositories.<ref>{{URL|https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket}}</ref>
* August <s>July 1</s> <s>June 1</s>: [[Bitbucket]] deleted all [[Mercurial]] repositories.<ref>{{URL|https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket}}</ref>
* July 31: [[Discogs]]'s sibling site for comics, {{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/|Comicogs}}, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/forum/138464-comicogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010795398-Comicogs-Closing-On-July-31-2020}}</ref>
* July 31: [[Discogs]]'s sibling site for comics, {{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/|Comicogs}}, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/forum/138464-comicogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010795398-Comicogs-Closing-On-July-31-2020}}</ref>
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* June 30: ARM announced in January that the documentation platforms [https://developer.arm.com/docs developer.arm.com/docs] and [http://infocenter.arm.com/ infocenter.arm.com] were to be retired "later this year" after migration to a new platform.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/upcoming-changes-to-arm-s-technical-documentation-websites}}</ref> On May 29, they launched the new {{URL|https://developer.arm.com/documentation-beta/|beta platform}} and announced that the "full release [...] is scheduled for 30 June", at which point the old platforms would be replaced by redirects.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-beta-goes-live}}</ref> It went down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-goes-live}}</ref>
* June 30: ARM announced in January that the documentation platforms [https://developer.arm.com/docs developer.arm.com/docs] and [http://infocenter.arm.com/ infocenter.arm.com] were to be retired "later this year" after migration to a new platform.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/upcoming-changes-to-arm-s-technical-documentation-websites}}</ref> On May 29, they launched the new {{URL|https://developer.arm.com/documentation-beta/|beta platform}} and announced that the "full release [...] is scheduled for 30 June", at which point the old platforms would be replaced by redirects.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-beta-goes-live}}</ref> It went down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-goes-live}}</ref>
* June 30: {{URL|http://www.suntuubi.com/|Suntuubi.com}} closed down on June 30, 2020 (shutdown also includes *.virtuaalitalli.fi, *.w2.fi, *.heppa.fi domains; these were aliases to the corresponding suntuubi.com subdomain)
* June 30: {{URL|http://www.suntuubi.com/|Suntuubi.com}} closed down on June 30, 2020 (shutdown also includes *.virtuaalitalli.fi, *.w2.fi, *.heppa.fi domains; these were aliases to the corresponding suntuubi.com subdomain)
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.
* June 16: {{URL|https://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}}, the parent of {{URL|https://mystonline.com|Myst Online}}, shut their forums down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1608}}</ref>
* June 15<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/121148/the-sandboxie-forum-is-now-closed}}</ref> <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/|Sandboxie}}'s {{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum|forums}} were made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/119641/important-sandboxie-open-source-code-is-available-for-download}}</ref> The {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/old-forums/index.html|old forums}} became inaccessible around the same time. The remainder of the website was also replaced by a static notice on the homepage in June.
* June 15<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/121148/the-sandboxie-forum-is-now-closed}}</ref> <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/|Sandboxie}}'s {{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum|forums}} were made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/119641/important-sandboxie-open-source-code-is-available-for-download}}</ref> The {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/old-forums/index.html|old forums}} became inaccessible around the same time. The remainder of the website was also replaced by a static notice on the homepage in June.
* June <s>"by end of March"</s>: {{URL|http://activedir.org/|Activedir forum, mailing list, and website}} was started back in January 2001 with the aim of providing a forum for discussing various aspects of Microsoft's Active Directory technology. 11.5k members, 49k posts, 9.5k in forum. Announced to disappear "by the end of March"<ref>{{URL|http://activedir.org/thread/mailing-list-future/}}</ref>, it stayed online until June.
* June <s>"by end of March"</s>: {{URL|http://activedir.org/|Activedir forum, mailing list, and website}} was started back in January 2001 with the aim of providing a forum for discussing various aspects of Microsoft's Active Directory technology. 11.5k members, 49k posts, 9.5k in forum. Announced to disappear "by the end of March"<ref>{{URL|http://activedir.org/thread/mailing-list-future/}}</ref>, it stayed online until June.
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* May 6: {{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/|Wunderlist}} <s>was slowly being destroyed by [[Microsoft]] piece by piece since the shutdown announcement in 2017<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/19/introducing-microsoft-to-do-now-available-in-preview/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.pcworld.com/article/3384707/wunderlists-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-continues-as-microsoft-axes-cortana-integration.html}}</ref></s> was demolished.<ref>{{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/join-us-on-our-new-journey/}}</ref>
* May 6: {{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/|Wunderlist}} <s>was slowly being destroyed by [[Microsoft]] piece by piece since the shutdown announcement in 2017<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/19/introducing-microsoft-to-do-now-available-in-preview/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.pcworld.com/article/3384707/wunderlists-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-continues-as-microsoft-axes-cortana-integration.html}}</ref></s> was demolished.<ref>{{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/join-us-on-our-new-journey/}}</ref>
* April 19 <s>June 30</s>: The {{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/|Marriott Bonvoy Insiders community}}, read-only from April 3, was going to be shut down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/blogs/exclusive-news/2020/04/02/community-update}}</ref> However, it was put into maintenance mode<ref>{{URL|1=https://status.jiveon.com/maintenance.jspa?hostname=insiders.marriott.com}}</ref> prematurely on 19 April around 20:15 UTC, apparently due to an unintended data leak caused by the read-only mode<ref>{{URL|https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32316295-post26.html}}</ref>, and never returned after that.
* April 19 <s>June 30</s>: The {{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/|Marriott Bonvoy Insiders community}}, read-only from April 3, was going to be shut down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/blogs/exclusive-news/2020/04/02/community-update}}</ref> However, it was put into maintenance mode<ref>{{URL|1=https://status.jiveon.com/maintenance.jspa?hostname=insiders.marriott.com}}</ref> prematurely on 19 April around 20:15 UTC, apparently due to an unintended data leak caused by the read-only mode<ref>{{URL|https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32316295-post26.html}}</ref>, and never returned after that.
* April 5<ref>{{URL|https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2ftalk.sonymobile.com%2f&d=4518653647064303&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=4j2zCIUk00gG2L9bnPMUPAhowuCWkV2O|Bing cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://talk.sonymobile.com/|Google cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05 09:25 UTC}}</ref> <s>"early 2020"</s>: {{URL|https://talk.sonymobile.com/|Sony Xperia support forum}}
* April 5<ref>{{URL|1=https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2ftalk.sonymobile.com%2f&d=4518653647064303&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=4j2zCIUk00gG2L9bnPMUPAhowuCWkV2O|2=Bing cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://talk.sonymobile.com/|2=Google cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05 09:25 UTC}}</ref> <s>"early 2020"</s>: {{URL|https://talk.sonymobile.com/|Sony Xperia support forum}}
* April<ref>Between {{URL|https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fwww.ibm.com%2fdeveloperworks%2fcommunity%2fgroups%2fservice%2fhtml%2fallcommunities&d=4995867465091736&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=bmcENikpCnvf2-JMUeUYVTyC6pQRoeOm|Bing cache from 2020-04-02}} and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref> <s>January 2</s> <s>December 31</s>: IBM's {{URL|https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/allcommunities|developerWorks Connections platform}}<ref>{{URL|https://developer.ibm.com/code/dw-connections-sunset-faq/}}</ref>
* April<ref>Between {{URL|1=https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fwww.ibm.com%2fdeveloperworks%2fcommunity%2fgroups%2fservice%2fhtml%2fallcommunities&d=4995867465091736&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=bmcENikpCnvf2-JMUeUYVTyC6pQRoeOm|2=Bing cache from 2020-04-02}} and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref> <s>January 2</s> <s>December 31</s>: IBM's {{URL|https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/allcommunities|developerWorks Connections platform}}<ref>{{URL|https://developer.ibm.com/code/dw-connections-sunset-faq/}}</ref>
* April 1<ref>#missitall: &lt;@betamax&gt; it was online in the AM of April 1st. Offline in the AM of April 2nd (those are GMT+1 times)</ref>: [[BBC Mixital]]
* April 1<ref>#missitall: &lt;@betamax&gt; it was online in the AM of April 1st. Offline in the AM of April 2nd (those are GMT+1 times)</ref>: [[BBC Mixital]]
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed].   
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed].   
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* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref>
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref>
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums followed one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|1=https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref>
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums followed one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|1=https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref>
* May<ref>Announced for 1 May at {{URL|https://www.99.se/artikel/12518-ajoss-och-tack-for-fisken}}, actually shut down sometime between 14 and 20 May.</ref>: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum
* May<ref>Announced for 1 May at {{URL|https://www.99.se/artikel/12518-ajoss-och-tack-for-fisken}}, actually shut down sometime between 14 and 20 May.</ref>: [[99.se]], Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum
* May 13: All [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 were hidden by Baidu. Baidu claimed this was for a "database system upgrade". (In fact, Baidu surrendered to the CCP's harsh censorship.)
* May 13: All [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 were hidden by Baidu. Baidu claimed this was for a "database system upgrade". (In fact, Baidu surrendered to the CCP's harsh censorship.)
* May 13<ref>Announced for 31 March but remained online until sometime between 12 and 14 May</ref>: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref>
* May 13<ref>Announced for 31 March but remained online until sometime between 12 and 14 May</ref>: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref>
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* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref>
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref>
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref>
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref>
* Late November or December: The OpenShot video editor's user forum was shut down.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20181122023132/http://openshotusers.com/forum/ OpenShot Users Forum (from the Wayback Machine, 22 November 2018)]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20190104121419/http://openshotusers.com/forum/ General Error - OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 January 2019)]</ref> It was later redirected to the OpenShot subreddit.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20190604180913/http://openshotusers.com/forum OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 June 2019)]</ref> Any posts not crawled by the Wayback Machine are lost.
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.
* October 10: {{URL|https://pin-cong.com/|品葱}} was taken down by the Chinese Communist Party due to high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China.
* October 10: {{URL|https://pin-cong.com/|品葱}} was taken down by the Chinese Communist Party due to high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China.
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* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref>
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising}}</ref>
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.
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* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.
==== Because we know better ====
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.


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* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref>
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref>
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref>
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref>
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!
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** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)
* February 29: '''Stage6''', a video sharing site, was shut down by DivX Inc. on February 29, 2008. <ref>{{url|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stage6}}</ref>
* February 29: '''Stage6''', a video sharing site, was shut down by DivX Inc. on February 29, 2008. <ref>{{url|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stage6}}</ref>
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref>
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret|Think Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref>
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref>
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref>
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref>
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref>
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.
* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.
* '''{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/|The Bitcoin Forum (forum.bitcoin.com)}}''' announced it might close on 2020-07-23<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/the-bitcoin-com-forum-is-closing-on-july-23rd-2020-t130936.html}}</ref> or not<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post316521.html#p316521}}</ref> or merge with {{URL|https://bitco.in/}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post317157.html#p317157}}</ref>. On July 27, it was announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post318358.html}}</ref>
* '''{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/|The Bitcoin Forum (forum.bitcoin.com)}}''' announced it might close on 2020-07-23<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/the-bitcoin-com-forum-is-closing-on-july-23rd-2020-t130936.html}}</ref> or not<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post316521.html#p316521}}</ref> or merge with {{URL|https://bitco.in/}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post317157.html#p317157}}</ref>. On July 27, it was announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post318358.html}}</ref>
* '''BugTraq''', computer security mailing list, was announced to shut down 2021-01-31 along with the parent site {{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/}}. The mailing list itself had been abandoned after it was acquired by Accenture from Symantec/Broadcom in February 2020.<ref>{{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542247}}</ref> On 2021-01-17, a new announcement was made that BugTraq would be kept running.<ref>{{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542248}}</ref>
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.
** In late June 2020, a notice was added to the homepage that the project had failed and was going to end on 30 September.<ref> {{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864599&oldid=100857010}}</ref> A month later, it was announced that the wiki would keep running.<ref>{{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864876&oldid=100864875}}</ref>
** In late June 2020, a notice was added to the homepage that the project had failed and was going to end on 30 September.<ref> {{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864599&oldid=100857010}}</ref> A month later, it was announced that the wiki would keep running.<ref>{{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864876&oldid=100864875}}</ref>
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project.
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}}''' was going to shut down when its vBulletin plan expired on {{datetime|2023-10-22}}<ref>{{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/XpJ0N/CodingForum.net.txt|Email}}</ref>, but a new owner was found<ref>{{URL|https://www.codingforum.net/forum/other-forums/forum-feedback-and-announcements/2437218-codingforum-will-tentatively-shut-down-for-good-on-october-22-2023#post2437372}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.codingforum.net/forum/other-forums/forum-feedback-and-announcements/2437448-the-future-of-codingforum-a-fediverse-enabled-forum}}</ref>.
* '''{{URL|https://deadspin.com/|Deadspin}}''' (owned by G/O Media) fired its editor-in-chief on 29 October 2019; the next day, it lost its entire editorial staff to resignations and stopped publishing.<ref>{{url|https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/business/media/deadspin-sports-staff.html}}</ref> However, the editorial director responsible for the firing resigned, and Deadspin began publication again under a new team on 12 March 2020.<ref>{{url|https://deadspin.com/good-news-deadspin-is-publishing-again-bad-news-for-t-1842302392}}</ref>
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be  {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be  {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project.
* <s>'''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.</s> Both are now redirecting to duckduckgo.com as of 27 August 2022.
* '''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.
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* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref>
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref>
* '''{{URL|https://index.hu/|Index}}''', a major Hungarian news outlet, fired its editor-in-chief on 22 July 2020<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/22/szabolcs_dull_editor_in_chief_index_dismissed/}}</ref>; two days later most of its editorial staff quit in protest.<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/}}</ref> Index discontinued {{url|https://index.hu/english|its English-language news}}, but otherwise never stopped publishing.
* '''{{URL|https://www.intomore.com/|INTO}}''', a digital LGBTQ magazine, stopped publication in January 2019 and was to have been shut down on 21 August 2020<ref>Email sent to users: {{url|https://twitter.com/SerenaSonoma/status/1286777944803811335}}</ref>, but in fact remained online until its purchase and revival by publisher Q.Digital.<ref>{{URL|https://digiday.com/media/championing-the-people-you-dont-see-enough-q-digital-relaunches-lgbtq-pub-into-for-gen-z-bipoc-audiences/}}</ref>
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}
* '''{{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}''', an Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went on indefinite hiatus in July 2021,<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref> but returned in March 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://jurnalotaku.id/2022/03/23/waifu-wednesday-kitagawa-marin/}}</ref>
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. In September 2022 they were dropped by DDoS-mitigation site [[Clodflare]] and were forced to retreat to a Russian domain.<ref>{{url|https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/|Blocking Kiwifarms}}</ref> Kiwifarms were later reported to have been dropped by their DDoS-protection there as well.
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref>
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref>
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. It seems that the site is going back to full health again.  
* '''{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/|Minecraft Forum}}''' was going to be frozen<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60727-important-minecraft-forum-archive-announcement}}</ref> on 1 June 2019, but was then sold instead<ref>{{url|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning}}</ref>. Online and operating as of 2022.
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. The site was purchased again, by [[Atari]], in March 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-game-database-mobygames-for-1-5-million/}}</ref>
* '''{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}''', a large German car forum, was going to be shut down on {{datetime|2024-01-01}} by its owner mobile.de<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref> but was instead taken over in October 2023 by German Q&A platform [[gutefrage]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/bist-du-bereit-fuer-ein-2024-mit-motor-talk-und-gutefrage-net-t7534115.html}}</ref>.
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.
* {{URL|https://oengus.io|Oengus}}, speedrun marathon tracker, was planned to shut down on July 1, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/LYngmiKK}}</ref> The creator subsequently accepted an offer to transfer management of the site so it can continue operating.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/8YYJc9eB}}</ref>
* {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/|OldGameMags.com}} was announced to shut down on 2020-06-09<ref>"Being leeched to hell and back while getting no thanks takes a toll on you when you think people would have the decency to do so. [...] uploading newer files to other sites too. It all creates a mindset of distrust which is where I currently am at present." {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-site-closure}}</ref> except for now it won't<ref>"This is a temporary PAUSE on site closure! As stated previously I am committed to getting donated magazines scanned and released. THAT is the sole factor determining the time frame for keeping the site going as it stands today. When I have completed scanning those, and that is all I will be scanning until completion, I will review where we are at regarding membership, whether our files continue to get uploaded to other sites etc and depending on those and how I feel personally a decision will be made then around the continued existence of OGM." {{URL|1=http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-pc-gamer-uk-disc-editions?start=40#1103}}</ref>.
* {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/|OldGameMags.com}} was announced to shut down on 2020-06-09<ref>"Being leeched to hell and back while getting no thanks takes a toll on you when you think people would have the decency to do so. [...] uploading newer files to other sites too. It all creates a mindset of distrust which is where I currently am at present." {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-site-closure}}</ref> except for now it won't<ref>"This is a temporary PAUSE on site closure! As stated previously I am committed to getting donated magazines scanned and released. THAT is the sole factor determining the time frame for keeping the site going as it stands today. When I have completed scanning those, and that is all I will be scanning until completion, I will review where we are at regarding membership, whether our files continue to get uploaded to other sites etc and depending on those and how I feel personally a decision will be made then around the continued existence of OGM." {{URL|1=http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-pc-gamer-uk-disc-editions?start=40#1103}}</ref>.
* {{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/|OpenMapChest}} was announced on 2021-01-05 to be shutting down on 2022-02-26. After receiving a lot of feedback from the site's users, Ben (the site's owner) reconsidered and announced on 2021-12-27 that the site would remain online.<ref>{{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/donate/}}</ref>
* The '''{{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|QVC Community}}''' (user forums and blogs) announced in October of 2021 that it would be shutting down on {{datetime|2021-11-02}},<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211008001634/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html https://web.archive.org/web/20211008001634/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html]</ref> but reconsidered by {{datetime|2021-10-15}}.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211015215047/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html https://web.archive.org/web/20211015215047/https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html]</ref>
* {{URL|https://www.rpgwatch.com/|RPGWatch}} was set to shut down in July 2022<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50134}}</ref> but was later transferred to a new owner<ref>{{URL|https://rpgwatch.com/forum/threads/updates-on-the-move.50499/#post-1061686892}}</ref>.
* '''[[SoundCloud]]''' planned on introducing new upload limits (which would likely have led to deletions) on 9 December 2019<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e5jb9u/soundcloud_is_quietly_forcing_out_a_majority_of/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039149474-FAQ-SoundCloud-s-free-upload-limit}}</ref>, but reconsidered.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/1202688115636346880}}</ref>
* [[StoryFire]] was going to shut down on 2021-02-01<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1353452609596579842}}</ref> but secured funding at the last minute<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1356411760065048578}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1356422239646855170}}</ref>.
* {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums were going to shut down on {{datetime|2023-12-31}}<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref> but was then taken over by a new owner<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/stp-will-not-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-the-year.44742/}}</ref>.
* '''{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/|The Time Scales}}''' was announced to shut down on 2020-07-31.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/hwgwy2/message_from_thetimescalescom/}}</ref> It was later announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/}}, added sometime between 2020-07-30 and 2020-08-03.</ref>
* '''{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/|The Time Scales}}''' was announced to shut down on 2020-07-31.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/hwgwy2/message_from_thetimescalescom/}}</ref> It was later announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/}}, added sometime between 2020-07-30 and 2020-08-03.</ref>
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.
* {{URL|https://answers.unity.com/|Unity Answers}} was going to shut down on 2022-06-23 with less than two weeks of notice. After the community got angry, they reversed their decision (for now).<ref>{{URL|https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-answers-shutdown-canceled.1293360/}}</ref>
* '''[[Uploadir]]''', a free filehoster (similar to catbox), was set to shut down on 2022-12-30 after 13 years of operation. New owners were found in December.
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.
* '''[[wilko]]''' ({{URL|https://www.wilko.com/|wilko.com}}), a store that had previously gone into administration on August 10, 2023<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/18/christmas-and-halloween-items-in-wilko-everything-must-go-sale}}</ref>, was acquired by CDS Superstores (t/a. The Range)<ref>{{URL|https://www.wilko.com/en-uk/corporate/wilko-stores-will-return}}</ref> in September, 2023.
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)
* '''[[YTMND]]''' ({{url|1=http://ytmnd.com/}}) announced plans to shut down on August 29, 2016 and eventually went offline on May 12, 2019 due to a database failure. After an "outpouring of support" the owner decided to save the site with all content restored by March 31, 2020.
* '''[[YTMND]]''' ({{url|1=http://ytmnd.com/}}) announced plans to shut down on August 29, 2016 and eventually went offline on May 12, 2019 due to a database failure. After an "outpouring of support" the owner decided to save the site with all content restored by March 31, 2020.

Latest revision as of 20:57, 18 March 2024

The Deathwatch or Watchlist is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.

New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on Category:Closing projects.

A list of sites which warrant pre-emptive monitoring (either for their cultural significance or because they appear to be endangered) can be found at Fire Drill. Some general brainstorming is at Deathwatch/Misc.

Pining for the Fjords (Dying)

Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on Fire Drill.

2028

  • Russian federal and regional authorities will gradually close their websites on the Internet and transfer information resources to the Gosuslugi portal. This process will take about five years.[1]

2026

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • December 31: 4Players[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a German gaming news site and community, was supposed to shut down, according an announcement on its sibling site Readmore.de[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].[152] However, no notice was posted on the site itself, and as of 2024-02-23 it is continuing publication. (4Players previously announced that it would close on 2021-10-31,[153] but on 2021-11-01 instead reported that it would be continuing under new ownership.[154])
  • October to November: The Tor Project discontinued support for v2 Onion Services.[155] The core Tor software stopped supporting them in versions 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, and 0.4.6.8, all released on 2021-10-26;[156] Tor Browser dropped support in version 11.0 on 2021-11-08.[157] As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.
  • September 30: Khan Academy planned to remove its MCAT preparation material[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. (This was originally announced for 2021-07-15, but later delayed.)[158] However, it subsequently announced that the course would remain available until 2026.[159]
  • September 10: Bklyner[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a Brooklyn news site, ceased publication.[160] Still online as of 2024-02-23.
  • "mid 2021": Docker Hub will start deleting free accounts' "inactive" images (those that have not been pushed or pulled in 6 months), comprising almost one third of the total data. This was originally announced for 2020-11-01,[161][162] but later delayed.[163][164] As of 2024-02-23, promised further announcements have not been made, the "Container Image Retention Policy" page has been deleted, and the pricing page does not mention image retention; it's unclear whether Docker Hub ever pursued this.[165]
  • 2021-03-31: Periscope, the livestreaming service owned by Twitter, shut down its mobile app and went read-only. "Broadcasts that were shared to Twitter will live on as replays",[166] while "Periscope web at periscope.tv, [sic] will remain available as a read-only archive of public broadcasts."[167] Videos are still available on both Twitter and periscope.tv/pscp.tv as of 2024-02-23.
  • "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' InfoNu[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] went read-only. Still online as of 2024-02-23.

2020

  • Unknown: Penguin Random House in December 2019 has been sold to Bertelsmann, which already controlled it. Changes may be coming.
  • December 14: PornHub disabled all content uploaded from unverified accounts (meaning accounts that haven't been officially registered/verified to a specific performer or company) without prior announcement, following a dispute with MasterCard and Visa. It is unclear whether accounts will be able to retain content if they go through the verification procedure. MindGeek, the owners of PornHub, own a number of other large sites, such as YouPorn, PornHub, Xtube, Tube8 and Thumbzilla, that may be the next to look out for.
  • ca. October 9: downloads.dell.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], Dell's "backup" download site for drivers & Co. in case their (JS-laden) support site[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] broke.[168] As of 2022-09-17, it is still online, although it JS-redirects to the JS hell site.
  • February 4: The Myst Online[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and Cyan[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] forums went read-only.[169] Both were to have shut down completely on 16 June 2020 in favor of static archives; in fact, the Cyan forums remained online until March 2021 (it's unclear whether any official static archives are available) and the Myst Online forums are still online as of 2022-09-17.

2019

  • Unknown December 11: Twitter will begin purging inactive accounts.[170][171][172][173][174][175]
  • October 10: Splinter News[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (G/O Media) ceases publication. The future of the website is unclear.[176] Still online as of 2022-09-11.
  • September 20: Mozilla software community site mozillaZine's admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen.[177][178] The forums and wiki are both still online and functional as of 2022-09-11; however, the admin is unreachable and the domain expires on 2026-09-06.[179]
  • September 6: ThinkProgress ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
  • June 1: SuperTopo[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]'s forums[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], with over 2.2 million posts, went read-only.[180]. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
  • March 30: goo.gl, Google's URL shortening service, was frozen, but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.[181]

2018

  • October 1: Large Manosphere blog Return of Kings with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is going on hiatus. Still online as of 2022-09-11.
  • September 14: Racked ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.[182] Still online as of 2022-09-11.
  • September onwards: ZAM Network is shutting down a variety of websites since September.
  • Date unknown: Harvard's web blog service is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.[183]

2017

  • October 26: Xoom: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.

2016

  • Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.[184] As of 2022-09-11, the site is still online.
  • January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. [185][186] As of 2022-09-11, the boards were still online.

Dead as a Doornail

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

  • December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down[629]. (Partially saved through ArchiveBot job:qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh.)
  • December 17: Tumblr nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content[630]).[631]
  • December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.[632]
  • Late November or December: The OpenShot video editor's user forum was shut down.[633][634] It was later redirected to the OpenShot subreddit.[635] Any posts not crawled by the Wayback Machine are lost.
  • November 5: BotBot.me[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.
  • October 10: 品葱[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was taken down by the Chinese Communist Party due to high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China.
  • October: Mozilla Addons deleted all legacy addons.
  • October 1: 天空部落 TIAN purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".
  • September 30: TF2 Outpost and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: ZAM Network)
  • September 30: Wikispaces Plus and Super Wikis closed.[636]
  • August 10: TalkTalk deleted its personal webspace.
  • August 1: Tindeck permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.[637]
  • July 31: Wikispaces Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.[638]
  • July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.[639]
  • July 18: Looksmax.net, a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.
  • July 16: guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark. It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"[640]. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to ArchiveBot again in July to make sure that everything's covered: job:1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6.
  • July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums (US[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and EU[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]).
  • June 28: Bungie shut down the old Halo forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.[641]
  • May 16: Storify
  • April 16: German technology discussion forum GIGA-Forum
  • March 30: VocaloidOtaku.net
  • March 30: Website for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)
  • March 6: Bumpers.fm podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)
  • March 5: Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com, with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"[642] "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."[643]
  • March 1: Polish free webhosting service Republika WWW (according to emails sent out to users).
  • February 28: Polish free blog hosting Blog.pl
  • February 6: Captioned.com app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)
  • February 1: Mapzen announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".[644] Many open source cartographical resources were present here.
  • January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum Subcultura
  • January: Manga hosting website Batoto

2017

  • Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.
  • Date unknown: Elfwood has been home to tons of fantasy and sci-fi art and fiction since the late 90's, though since June 2016, plans for a "new Elfwood" have been put on hold. According to Wayback Machine, was last seen functioning normally in March 2017.
  • December 15: Vidme[645] - video sharing platform.
  • December 15: CompuServe Forums[646]
  • November 30: Twitter translation center forums closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.
  • November 8: Miiverse, Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto a new site.
  • October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. [647]
  • September 4: Torrent Project[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on the .onion domain at first. As of July 2020, the hidden service is also unresponsive, and the site is not known to have returned to clearnet since 2017.
  • July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.
  • June 30: Eroshare, a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those Reddit links, useless...
  • June 23: Imzy[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a discussion community website, shut down.
  • March 17: LoadAverage, a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down[648]
  • March 10: Version 2 of Dead Horse Interchangeable[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards (http://dhi.freeforums.net/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later (http://deadhorseinterchange.net/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.
  • March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services[649]
  • January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace [650]

2016

  • Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/
  • Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, Captain Luffy Forums would be closing when the hosting expired, as the owner had chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.
  • Date unknown: Lots of older nin.com sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) died. DNS had already been repointed but the old hosts were still online as of 2016-12-20[651]; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.
  • December 31: ex.ua was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.
  • December 27: kepfeltoltes.hu, one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.
  • December: Convozine[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] started having technical problems[652]. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017[653][654].
  • November 17: What.CD[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] suddenly shut down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent music trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."[655]
  • November 10: Nifty ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.[656]
  • October/November: Desura and Indie Royale[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.[657]
  • October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. [658]
  • October 31: Twitterfeed shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend Buffer (https://buffer.com) or Dlvr.it.
  • October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.[659]
  • October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for good. They claimed that this was because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.
  • September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.[660] He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • September 30: http://www.lokalisten.de/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shut down.[661]
  • August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame Microsoft.[662]
  • August 5: Yahoo! discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. [663]
  • July 31: Kagi.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."
  • June 27: Music News Nashville[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] ceased publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." The domain expired sometime between December 2017 and February 2018.
  • July 27: Portalgraphics.net has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images[664]
  • July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. [665]
  • July 19: Webmonkey now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.
  • June 11: Antimisandry.com, which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.[666]
  • June 1: Arto, the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).
  • June 1: Blog.dk, Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)
  • May 18: GameTrailers, after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.
  • May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".[667]
  • May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.[668][669]
  • May 1: Google's Picasa Web Albums were shut down.[670]
  • March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.[671]
  • March 21: Futanariobsession[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.[672] It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.
  • March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.[673]
  • March 15: Google's Picasa was discontinued.[674]
  • February 1: notepad.cc by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) (urlteam results) More than 900 URLs.
  • January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)
  • January 25: Google Code shut down.[675]
  • January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.
  • January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.[676][677] The public-facing side was saved with ArchiveBot on 2015-10-04.

2015

  • December 31: GuildPortal
  • December 19: DumpTruck - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.[678]
  • October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.[679]
  • September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.
  • September 30: Yahoo Pipes gets clogged up.[680]
  • September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile[681].
  • August or September: cyberpunkreview.com: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.
  • August 27: Blip.tv is gone in a blip.
  • August 25: Blingee dies and deletes 9 years of user content.
  • July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).[682]
  • July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. [683]
  • July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.[684]
  • July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.[685]
  • July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.[686]
  • June 30: Freebase shuts down.
  • June 13: Hungarian image hosting service keptarad.hu goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.
  • June 9: Pomf.se staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy.
  • May 31: Gitorious is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab[687]
  • May 30: Foodily recipes vanished in space void.
  • May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.
  • May[688]: AOL shut down MyDaily[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and ParentDish[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)
  • April 30: Google Helpouts shut down.
  • April 30: Grooveshark shut down due to years of copyright issues.[689]
  • April 17: Yahoo's URL shortener y.ahoo.it drops its YQL table.
  • April 10: FriendFeed shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.
  • April 9: Yahoo Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. [690]
  • April 10: FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) got unfriended by Facebook.
  • March 31: Trovebox got looted.[691]
  • March 31: RapidShare shut down.
  • March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history[692].
  • March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline[693][694].
  • March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)
  • March 15: Google Business Sitebuilder became a business sitebreaker.[695]
  • March 15: CloudOn[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was cloud-offed after getting acquired by Dropbox.
  • March 12: Ovi Store is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.
  • March 12: Roon (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.
  • March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.[696]
  • March 7: Target Ticket expired.
  • March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.
  • March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.[697]
  • March 3: Internet Centrum deletes its phpcities.
  • February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.[698]
  • February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.[699]
  • February 26: Apple crashes TestFlight.
  • February 23: Odysee shuts down.
  • February 16: Google Talk is shut up.
  • February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists[700].
  • February 13: MediaCrush got crushed.
  • February 11: Spot.us has lost us[701].
  • February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.
  • February 3: Joystiq[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (by AOL) is discontinued[702] and was shut down on 17 March[703].[704]
  • February 3: The Unofficial Apple Weblog is officially dead[705].
  • February 1: Molto melts away.
  • February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.
  • February 1: Inkblazers will be Inkerasers[706].
  • January or February: Nakido[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.
  • January: AOL Autos is shut down.
  • January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.
  • January 31: Transformers Universe collapses[707].
  • January 26: Brace.io has been acquired by Squarespace[708]. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)
  • January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media[709]
  • January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.
  • January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.
  • January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.
  • January 15: vStreamers goes offline.
  • January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost[710].
  • January 12: Nokia Memories is forgotten[711].
  • January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.[712][713][714]
  • January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed[715].
  • January 2: Nokia Trailers, which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.
  • January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.
  • January 1: tvtag was untagged.

2014

2013

  • December 26: Wretch and Yahoo! Blog is closed by Yahoo!.
  • December 21: ClanBase[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.
  • December 20: WinAmp, home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.
  • December 18: Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning closes.
  • December 15: Everpix, a photo-sharing service, shuts down. https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was saved, the rest lost.[729][730]
  • December 12: Hyves closes its social network, but it's now got games!
  • November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] http://www.vmkforums.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] http://www.carsonlineforums.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: http://www.mmocentralforums.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
  • November 11: Bre.ad is dead.
  • November 7: Dopplr drops out from the web.
  • November 1: Zapd deletes its user data from the website.
  • November 1: iGoogle shuts down.
  • November: BerliOS is barely alive.
  • November: Bitmit, a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.
  • November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: Legacy Locker[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say No.[731]
  • October 31: Nintendo shut down Full Screen Mario[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. It's GitHub repository[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] should be archived in case it goes down.
  • October 21: isoHunt was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.
  • October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to http://www.theoldcomputer.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb][732]
  • September 30: OMGPOP shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a petition[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.
  • September 30: MSN TV, aka WebTV, no longer accessible.
  • September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.[733]
  • September: Freeblog.hu closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.
  • August-September: http://fileden.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.
  • August 31: Jux announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013. On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.
  • August 31: Rockmelt shuts down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
  • August 21: Amplicate vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.
  • August 20: Catch closes its doors.
  • August 19: Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.
  • August 9: Google Latitude shut down.
  • August 5: Astrid is shut down after being acquired by Yahoo!.
  • August: Chanarchive.org, a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.
  • July 31: All third party downloads disappear from Yahoo! Downloads.
  • July 25: Yahoo! Stars India is shut down.
  • July 24: Snapjoy, acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.
  • July 19: Google shuts down Alfred.
  • July 9: Yahoo! Neighbors shuts down a day after it was supposed to.
  • July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.
  • July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.
  • June 30: Yahoo! demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.
  • June 28: Yahoo! shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.
  • June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.
  • June 4: Adrenaline Vault, a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."
  • June: Omploader[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.
  • April 30: Posterous, a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.
  • April 30: Circalit decides in March that deleting is easier than migrating[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] its prose-writing users.
  • April 30: schülerVZ once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.
  • April 20: Microsoft Collection Book, a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as The Collection Book.
  • March 31: Zug.com, a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.
  • March 29: http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down
  • March 25: Epinions locked out its users.
  • March 24: The OpenSolaris Hub[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and all sites under opensolaris.org, including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.
  • February 28: Stickam[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.
  • February 21st: 1up.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], ugo.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], and gamespy.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] all run out of lives.
  • February: Regretsy shuts down.
  • January 31: Do.com shuts down.
  • January: http://go.to[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], an URL shortener, has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.

2012

  • December: Piczo[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.
  • October 29: Gamecorner.pl[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)
  • September 26: CIA.vc[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).
  • August 17: Ponibooru (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[1]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, shut down[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.
  • August: Parodius Networking, which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died
  • July 30: Kasabi[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a data publishing platform created by Talis[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was announced[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a blog post[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.
  • July 26: noob.hu doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.
  • July 1: The Polish social network wikipedia:Grono.net has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service grono.net.pl on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...
  • June 30: Apple MobileMe, iDisk, iWeb, and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in 2012[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". [734][735]
  • April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.
  • April: convore.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.
  • February: Hungarian free hosting provider Eplanet[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.
  • January 19: The popular file hosting service Megaupload has been shut down in January 2012; with it, Megavideo too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.
  • Fileplanet [736]. Already fully archived.

2011

  • August/September: Google Labs closed. [738] and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" [739] that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 Whatsgoingonwithgoogle 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
  • May 31: MyPhotoAlbum.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.
  • April 16: Encyclopedia Dramatica shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.
    A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.
  • March 31: Yahoo! Video shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.
  • March 16: Microsoft closed Windows Live Spaces on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to WordPress or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.[740]
  • February 22: The Insurgency Wiki is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.
  • February/June: The IRC logging service IRSeeK.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shut down. Back in 2007, it had controversially used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.
  • January 17: The Sims Carnival: [741]
  • January: The wiki hosting site wik.is, hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by filling out this short form.[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]"

2010

  • December 17: The Symbian Foundation[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010[742][743].
  • December: Machinima.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles.
  • November: BrightFuse[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.
  • October 31: isweb lite, the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: [744] isweb itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. [745]
  • September/October: Vox[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shut down at the end of September 2010.
  • Mid-2010: JuniorNet, a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.
  • May 31: cgillust.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to Portalgraphics.net
  • April/May: Kid Radd[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. here[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • March 31: Extra.hu, largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.
  • March 1: Storytlr[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.
  • March: Platinum[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by Klubitus[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], another related portal popular in Finland.

2009

  • December 6: favrd, a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: "Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!" Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.
  • November: here.is seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.
Discontinuedpedia
  • October 31: Microsoft Encarta, the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. [746]
  • October 26: GeoCities: Shock! Repeat Offender Yahoo announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." [747]. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the Geocities project page for more details.
  • August 31: Microsoft's SoapBox has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. [748].
  • August 30ish: ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs, a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain http://www.qualityroms.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], and on the site that the domain masked http://home.no.net/qualrom/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.
  • August 24: Microsoft's Popfly [749] pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.
  • July 13: Yahoo! 360 announces [750] that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.
  • June 25: Imeem, a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, announced[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone five days to get their photos off, and then extended it to twenty days from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.
  • June 15: Jumpcut.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.
  • May 31: Rejaw, a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 [751]. It's gone.
  • May 21: MSN QnA Beta closed on May 21 [752]
  • April 20: Coghead[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. [753]. It did.
  • April 17: Furl[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.[754][755]
Did we say upline? We meant offline.
  • March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: Upline[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.[756] They almost immediately turned off the backup process, and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!
  • March 31: Google acquired Etherpad[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] on 4th December, 2009 and immediately announced[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to open source the Etherpad codebase[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are numerous alternatives.
  • March 30: Yahoo Briefcase, a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?
  • March 25: Yahoo! Farechase, an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. [757]
  • March 20: Spiralfrog[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. [758] Things looked so promising in 2006: [759] Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. [760]
  • March 17: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was put up for sale[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. [761] Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.
  • March 11: Videosift[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.
  • March 6: Scoopt[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.
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  • Sometime between February 28th and March 23d: music.download.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.
  • February 28: Lycos Europe shut down their Tripod hosting service on February 28, 2009. [762] [763] Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. Lycos Europe is also shuttering the social networking site Jubii as of February 15, 2009. [764] A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.
  • February 27: The Rocky Mountain News[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] has shut down as of February 27, 2009. [765] We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News here[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • February 23: Windows Live shut down the MSN Groups on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. [766]
  • January 31: ma.gnolia.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: "As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours." Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!
  • January 28: Domino Magazine[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. My Deco File[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.
  • January 28: Culture11[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] ran out of money.[767]
  • January 27: Yahoo Pets was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. [768]
  • January 17: totse.com closed its doors[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror exists[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], alongside a repository of the totse text files[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • January 15: Ficlets.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. [769]
  • January 15: Circavie.com (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. [770]
  • January 14: Several Google services have shut down. [771] Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.
  • January 11: Co.mments.com closed down on January 11, 2009.
  • January 9: AOL Pictures said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)
  • January 6: Electronic Gaming Monthly has recently shut its doors. [772]

2008

Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008

The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.
  • October 27: Digitalrailroad.net, a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. [773]

Other deaths of 2008

The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.
  • December 18: Yahoo! Kickstart, a social network for college students revealed in 2007 [777] got expelled on about December 18, 2008. [778]
  • December 16: Flip.com, a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. [779]
  • December 15: Pownce[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was closed on December 15, 2008.
  • December 8: I Want Sandy[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well!
  • December 3: Yahoo Live![IAWcite.todayMemWeb] died on December 3, 2008. [780]
  • October 31: Compuserve OurWorld[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] slipped into history on October 31, 2008.
  • October 29: BlogRush.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. [781]
  • September 29: ScribbleWiki wikis go offline. Apparently their servers crashed[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and they didn't have a backup.
  • September 28: Yahoo! Mash, a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. [782]
  • September 26: Uber.com was a social blog site that died. [783]
    • Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.
  • September 18: Wallop[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. [784] [785]
  • May 21: Virtual Magic Kingdom closed its gates[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] on May 21, 2008. [786] The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.
  • February 29: Stage6, a video sharing site, was shut down by DivX Inc. on February 29, 2008. [787]
  • February 14: Think Secret was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. [788]
  • July 31: Social.fm couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. [789]
  • May 15: Brijit.com, a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. [790]
  • February: Yahoo! Design, a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. [791]

2007

2006

2005

  • http://IUMA.COM[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive.

2004

2003

2002

2001

  • CHV.Net, aka Cyber Hippie Vision, was a video game commentary and review site which had high quality game-play videos in MPG. It was based in South Korea, on a high speed connection, was very well done, and was far ahead of its time. It might have been a top YouTube or Twitch channel, had those platforms existed. Some videos have been re-uploaded to YouTube [2] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [3][4][5] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN
  • SixDegrees.com, a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001
  • The Useless Pages (at IA)

Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations

  • Berlios.de will shut down at end of 2011[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). Instructions for exporting a project.[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] Berlios is still open and they are now partnered with sourceforge[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] to keep things running.
  • The Bitcoin Forum (forum.bitcoin.com)[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] announced it might close on 2020-07-23[795] or not[796] or merge with https://bitco.in/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb][797]. On July 27, it was announced that the site would live on.[798]
  • BugTraq, computer security mailing list, was announced to shut down 2021-01-31 along with the parent site https://www.securityfocus.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. The mailing list itself had been abandoned after it was acquired by Accenture from Symantec/Broadcom in February 2020.[799] On 2021-01-17, a new announcement was made that BugTraq would be kept running.[800]
  • Citizendium's finances constantly cry for money[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. WikiTeam archives it on a regular basis.
    • In late June 2020, a notice was added to the homepage that the project had failed and was going to end on 30 September.[801] A month later, it was announced that the wiki would keep running.[802]
  • Cli.gs, another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."[803] In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.[804] All aboard the TinyURL project.
  • CodingForum[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was going to shut down when its vBulletin plan expired on 2023-10-22[805], but a new owner was found[806][807].
  • Deadspin[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (owned by G/O Media) fired its editor-in-chief on 29 October 2019; the next day, it lost its entire editorial staff to resignations and stopped publishing.[808] However, the editorial director responsible for the firing resigned, and Deadspin began publication again under a new team on 12 March 2020.[809]
  • Delicious[810] will be shutting down soon[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. Slashdot link[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.
  • Duck.co[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their own platform[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum. Both are now redirecting to duckduckgo.com as of 27 August 2022.
  • Earbits bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.
  • FileFront[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] is closing up shop [811]. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service[812], the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to GameFront[813].
  • Formspring (now called spring.me) announced they'd be shutting down[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.
  • Free Music Archive was set to close in November/December 2018[814] but remains online for now[815].
  • GitHost announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.[816] However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.[817][818]
  • Google Video threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.
  • Home of the Underdogs went under on Feb 9th[819]. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway [820]. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online [821]
  • Index[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a major Hungarian news outlet, fired its editor-in-chief on 22 July 2020[822]; two days later most of its editorial staff quit in protest.[823] Index discontinued its English-language news[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], but otherwise never stopped publishing.
  • INTO[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a digital LGBTQ magazine, stopped publication in January 2019 and was to have been shut down on 21 August 2020[824], but in fact remained online until its purchase and revival by publisher Q.Digital.[825]
  • JPG Magazine announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 [826], but the site lives lives on under new ownership[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]. Feel free to download the torrent[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
  • Jurnal Otaku[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], an Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went on indefinite hiatus in July 2021,[827] but returned in March 2022.[828]
  • KeygenJukebox, which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.
  • Kiwi Farms[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a notorious forum that mocks "lolcows", was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. In September 2022 they were dropped by DDoS-mitigation site Clodflare and were forced to retreat to a Russian domain.[829] Kiwifarms were later reported to have been dropped by their DDoS-protection there as well.
  • Linux Journal: Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.[830] Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.[831]
  • Minecraft Forum[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was going to be frozen[832] on 1 June 2019, but was then sold instead[833]. Online and operating as of 2022.
  • MobyGames, the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by GameFly in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by Blue Flame Labs[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. The site was purchased again, by Atari, in March 2022.[834]
  • motor-talk.de[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], a large German car forum, was going to be shut down on 2024-01-01 by its owner mobile.de[835] but was instead taken over in October 2023 by German Q&A platform gutefrage[836].
  • nyaa[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and revival at 10 day after[IAWcite.todayMemWeb].
  • Oengus[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], speedrun marathon tracker, was planned to shut down on July 1, 2021.[837] The creator subsequently accepted an offer to transfer management of the site so it can continue operating.[838]
  • OldGameMags.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was announced to shut down on 2020-06-09[839] except for now it won't[840].
  • OpenMapChest[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was announced on 2021-01-05 to be shutting down on 2022-02-26. After receiving a lot of feedback from the site's users, Ben (the site's owner) reconsidered and announced on 2021-12-27 that the site would remain online.[841][842]
  • The QVC Community[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] (user forums and blogs) announced in October of 2021 that it would be shutting down on 2021-11-02,[843] but reconsidered by 2021-10-15.[844]
  • RPGWatch[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was set to shut down in July 2022[845] but was later transferred to a new owner[846].
  • SoundCloud planned on introducing new upload limits (which would likely have led to deletions) on 9 December 2019[847][848], but reconsidered.[849]
  • StoryFire was going to shut down on 2021-02-01[850] but secured funding at the last minute[851][852].
  • Squat the Planet[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] forums were going to shut down on 2023-12-31[853] but was then taken over by a new owner[854].
  • The Time Scales[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was announced to shut down on 2020-07-31.[855] It was later announced that the site would live on.[856]
  • TwitPic's founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.
  • Unity Answers[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] was going to shut down on 2022-06-23 with less than two weeks of notice. After the community got angry, they reversed their decision (for now).[857]
  • Uploadir, a free filehoster (similar to catbox), was set to shut down on 2022-12-30 after 13 years of operation. New owners were found in December.
  • Video host Viddler announces in an e-mail newsletter[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.
  • WebCite – Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.
  • wilko (wilko.com[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]), a store that had previously gone into administration on August 10, 2023[858], was acquired by CDS Superstores (t/a. The Range)[859] in September, 2023.
  • Word Count Journal (http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 UPDATE The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) UPDATE2: Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)
  • YTMND (http://ytmnd.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) announced plans to shut down on August 29, 2016 and eventually went offline on May 12, 2019 due to a database failure. After an "outpouring of support" the owner decided to save the site with all content restored by March 31, 2020.

Links

Other Sites Remember the Dead

Tragic

Humorous

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  37. https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
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  39. https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
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  41. Announced for 1 May at https://www.99.se/artikel/12518-ajoss-och-tack-for-fisken[IAWcite.todayMemWeb], actually shut down sometime between 14 and 20 May.
  42. Announced for 31 March but remained online until sometime between 12 and 14 May
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