Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-49.146.36.28-20180329054410/@comment-53539-20180329085919

Its okay, we knew within hours of it shutting down.

We'd been expecting it for a while since it didn't make Azure money, plus he had been caught recently scamming over CeVIO with NATA and VERA. Basically he is a bit greedy and a lot of people over time had begun to loose faith.

Azure claimed the forum was not getting the interest it once had, the forum as far as I was concerned was getting a fair amount of traffic... I tell people it straight, I've been on the net for nearly two decades I know what a dead forum looks like, VO isn't a dead forum. Well... It is now... But you know what I mean right? Imagine going away for 6 months and coming back to find the only posts made by anyone was spam by porn sites. I've been there. >_<

Some forums are around that have existed for years, yet get one or two posts a year, yet are not considered "dead". A forum as a community doesn't need 1000 active members a day, a forum is a place you can leave serious discussions and come back later and respond. ITs a place where hard core nerds nerd it out. Some of the new social websites aren't the same.