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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Vbox7<br />
| logo = logo-vbox7.png<br />
| image = screenshot-vbox7.png<br />
| URL = [https://vbox7.com Vbox7]<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/vbox7-grab vbox7-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/vbox7/ vbox7]<br />
| irc = vboxxy<br />
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'''Vbox7''' is a Bulgarian video hosting website, launched in 2006. It has been owned by NetInfo since 2007.<br />
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On {{datetime|2014-06-02}}, a partnership/creator program was started.<ref>{{URL|https://it.dir.bg/tehnologii/-16801083}}</ref><br />
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On {{datetime|2024-01-15}}, due to copyright infringement concerns, all user-uploaded content was hidden from the site without prior warning<ref>{{URL|https://blog.vbox7.com/video-access/}}</ref>; following social media backlash, it was recovered for a 1-month period on {{datetime|2024-01-22}}. Videos of non-partnered channels were hidden permanently on {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.vbox7.com/blagodarim-vi/}}</ref><br />
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== Subdomains ==<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-12-31}}: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-29}}: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-15}}: {{URL|https://anon.cafe/|Anon.cafe}} imageboard<ref>{{URL|https://anon.cafe/meta/res/16466.html}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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" /><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* February?: {{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/|Oldschooldaw.com}} forums<ref>{{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php/topic,8173.0.html}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://manyland.com/|Manyland}}, a browser game based on user-generated content, will shut down.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.neonmob.com/|NeonMob}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://help.neonmob.com/news/closing}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-15}}: Support for self-hosted [[Jira]] instances will end.<ref>{{URL|https://www.atlassian.com/migration}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* '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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>)<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* "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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} went read-only. Still online as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* {{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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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!}}<br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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."<br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://themessenger.com/|The Messenger}}, a heavily invested in news site with many journalists is {URL|https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/business/media/messenger-closing-down.html|shutting down}}. Its website is not yet offline, but it seems likely that it will end up gone soon. <br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-12-31}}: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-31}}: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-29}}: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-03-15}}: {{URL|https://anon.cafe/|Anon.cafe}} imageboard<ref>{{URL|https://anon.cafe/meta/res/16466.html}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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" /><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* February?: {{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/|Oldschooldaw.com}} forums<ref>{{URL|http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php/topic,8173.0.html}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://manyland.com/|Manyland}}, a browser game based on user-generated content, will shut down.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-29}}: {{URL|https://www.neonmob.com/|NeonMob}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://help.neonmob.com/news/closing}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-15}}: Support for self-hosted [[Jira]] instances will end.<ref>{{URL|https://www.atlassian.com/migration}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* '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><br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>)<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* "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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} went read-only. Still online as of {{datetime|2024-02-23}}.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* {{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.<br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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!}}<br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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."<br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
<br />
* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
<br />
''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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Like [[Facebook]] pages/groups and [[Twitter]], Telegram chats can contain a significant amount of history (text, audio/video and images) of various online communities, as well as personal digital history.<br />
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== Structure ==<br />
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Channels on Telegram are essentially public streams of posts, similar to Twitter or RSS.<br />
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Since 2019-06-01 ([https://telegram.org/blog/privacy-discussions-web-bots update blog post]), it is possible to "preview" channels on the web (e.g. @Telegram at [https://telegram.me/s/Telegram] or [https://t.me/s/Telegram]).<br />
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{{CTA URL lists |regex = <nowiki>(telegram\.me|//([^/]*\.)?t\.me)(:\d+)?/(?!share/)\S+</nowiki> |broad = true}}<br />
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These tools archive Telegram channels through their web view. Only public channels can be saved this way, and certain attachments (including PDFs and some very long videos) are not available.<br />
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ArchiveTeam's [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-grab telegram project] archives as WARC, supporting all available web data (and including outlinks). Suggestions are welcome! A bot in the project IRC channel accepts archival requests for eventual upload into the Wayback Machine; it understands the following commands:<br />
* <code>!help</code> prints a help message listing available commands.<br />
* <code>!a</code> archives Telegram data once.<br />
** <code>!a <url></code> archives the given [https://t.me/ t.me] url (autodetecting the page type).<br />
** <code>!a channel:<channel name></code> archives the given channel.<br />
** <code>!a post:<channel name>:<post id></code> archives the given post, including any discussions.<br />
* <code>!p</code> archives a Telegram channel once immediately, then queues it for periodic re-archiving. (This is preferred for active, significant channels.)<br />
**<code>!p <channel> <interval> <time-to-live></code> archives the given channel (as <code><url></code> or <code>channel:<name></code>) once every <code>interval</code> seconds for the next <code>time-to-live</code> seconds (optional, default 1 year).<br />
* <code>!pget</code>, <code>!prenew</code>, or <code>!pdelete</code> <code><channel></code> gets info for, renews, or deletes a periodic item, respectively.<br />
* <code>!pdump</code> dumps info for all periodic items.<br />
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[https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape snscrape] exports textual channel data as JSONL (media support is pending).<br />
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==== Deprecated ====<br />
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* [[Chromebot]] was once used, but has been shut down due to data integrity issues. (Old jobs can be found via [[ArchiveBot/Telegram_channels|this wiki]].)<br />
* [[ArchiveBot]] was once used, but due to its lack of Javascript support, its results are inferior to those of the special-purpose Telegram project. Use the Telegram bot instead. (Old jobs can be found via [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/telegram.me the] [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/t.me viewer].)<br />
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=== All data ===<br />
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* The official Telegram Desktop app exports as HTML or JSON.<br />
* [https://github.com/expectocode/telegram-export telegram-export] (no longer maintained)<br />
* [https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump#usage telegram-history-dump] (no longer maintained); [https://www.haykranen.nl/2014/12/02/howto-backup-your-telegram-chats/ introduction]<br />
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/443pav/qa_exporting_telegram_messages_search_no_help/czu4n05 Pidgin sync]<br />
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See also [https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2022/03/08/how-to-archive-telegram-content-to-document-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/ Bellingcat's guide].<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [https://pad.notkiska.pw/p/telegram-channel-lists etherpad of third-party channel lists]<br />
* [[ArchiveBot/Telegram]] (some sites related to Telegram)<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://themessenger.com/|The Messenger}}, a heavily invested in news site with many journalists is {URL|https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/31/business/media/messenger-closing-down.html|shutting down}}. Its website is not yet offline, but it seems likely that it will end up gone soon. <br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* 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 August 3, 2023<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20230803064804/https://www.grasshopper3d.com/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* April 12: {{URL|https://queer.af|queer.af}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance shutting down on 2024-04-12.<ref>{{URL|https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 29: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* {{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><br />
* March 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><br />
* March 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><br />
* 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" /><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 29: {{URL|https://www.bilibilicomics.com/|Bilibili Comics}}, a host of non-amateur comics<ref>Notice shown on load of homepage</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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>.<br />
* February 15: Support for self-hosted [[Jira]] instances will end.<ref>{{URL|https://www.atlassian.com/migration}}</ref><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* February 2: {{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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://withkoji.com/|Koji}}, acquired by LinkTree.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/18if9q6/linktree_acquired_koji_thoughts/}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January or later: [[Manyland]]<br />
* '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><br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* {{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.<br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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!}}<br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
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===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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* 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><br />
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* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* April 12: {{URL|https://queer.af|queer.af}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance shutting down on 2024-04-12.<ref>{{URL|https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://toot.site/|toot.site}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://toot.site/@meave/111699990141936477}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 29: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* {{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><br />
* March 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><br />
* March 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><br />
* 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" /><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 29: {{URL|https://www.bilibilicomics.com/|Bilibili Comics}}, a host of non-amateur comics<ref>Notice shown on load of homepage</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* February 2: {{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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-02-01}}: {{URL|https://www.virusradar.com/}} will be shut down and will be redirected to ESET research.<br />
* {{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><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://withkoji.com/|Koji}}, acquired by LinkTree.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/18if9q6/linktree_acquired_koji_thoughts/}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January or later: [[Manyland]]<br />
* '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><br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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!}}<br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* April 12: {{URL|https://queer.af|queer.af}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance shutting down on 2024-04-12.<ref>{{URL|https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://toot.site/|toot.site}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://toot.site/@meave/111699990141936477}}</ref><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* March 29: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* March 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><br />
* 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" /><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* February 2: {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://withkoji.com/|Koji}}, acquired by LinkTree.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/18if9q6/linktree_acquired_koji_thoughts/}}</ref><br />
* January 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-01-30}}: {{URL|https://bear.community}}, a "18+ only Mastodon server for bears, chubbies and chasers" will shut down due to non-payment of hosting costs alongside the owner being unreachable. It was brought back online for 30 days so that existing users could export their data.<ref>{{URL|https://bear.community/@bootblackcub/111683360231381213}}</ref><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* January 7: {{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/chat/res/112453.html|Ponychan}}, an old MLP:FIM imageboard website, will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January: {{URL|https://www.dkfindout.com/|DK Find Out!}}<br />
* January or later: [[Manyland]]<br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 28: {{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/|Urban Decay}}, a cosmetics store, will cease taking orders.<ref>{{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/en_GB/closure-announcement.html}}</ref><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 22: {{URL|https://10play.com.au/studio-10|Studio 10}}, a breakfast show by Network 10.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CznGGC8yeol/}}</ref><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 15: Earliest possible date for [[Discord]] to begin requiring authentication parameters for attachment links.<br />
* December 15: 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* 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<br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-15}}: {{URL|https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/|Hobbes}} OS/2 Archive<br />
* April 12: {{URL|https://queer.af|queer.af}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance shutting down on 2024-04-12.<ref>{{URL|https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://toot.site/|toot.site}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://toot.site/@meave/111699990141936477}}</ref><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* {{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><br />
* March 29: {{URL|https://mix.tamatv.com/|My Mix Land}} will shut down.<br />
* March 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* February 2: {{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><br />
* {{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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-01-31}}: {{URL|https://srad.jp/}}, formerly Slashdot Japan, will shut down. (OSDN, formerly SourceForge.JP, is owned by the same company and may also be at risk.)<ref>{{URL|https://srad.jp/story/24/01/22/0311225/}}</ref><br />
* {{datetime|2024-01-30}}: {{URL|https://bear.community}}, a "18+ only Mastodon server for bears, chubbies and chasers" will shut down due to non-payment of hosting costs alongside the owner being unreachable. It was brought back online for 30 days so that existing users could export their data.<ref>{{URL|https://bear.community/@bootblackcub/111683360231381213}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://withkoji.com/|Koji}}, acquired by LinkTree.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/18if9q6/linktree_acquired_koji_thoughts/}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://dropshare.cloud/|Dropshare Cloud}}, a file storage service, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://9to5mac.com/2024/01/08/dropshare-cloud-shut-down/}}</ref><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* January 7: {{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/chat/res/112453.html|Ponychan}}, an old MLP:FIM imageboard website, will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January: {{URL|https://www.dkfindout.com/|DK Find Out!}}<br />
* January or later: [[Manyland]]<br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 28: {{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/|Urban Decay}}, a cosmetics store, will cease taking orders.<ref>{{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/en_GB/closure-announcement.html}}</ref><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 22: {{URL|https://10play.com.au/studio-10|Studio 10}}, a breakfast show by Network 10.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CznGGC8yeol/}}</ref><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 15: Earliest possible date for [[Discord]] to begin requiring authentication parameters for attachment links.<br />
* December 15: 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* January 10: [[South Park Forums]]<br />
* 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<br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
<br />
* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
<br />
''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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* 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><br />
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* 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><br />
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* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* {{datetime|2024-04-02}}: {{URL|https://gender.systems/|gender.systems}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://gender.systems/@kvuzet/111694449360288563}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* Beginning of April: {{URL|https://0w0.is/|0w0.is}}, a [[Fediverse]] instance, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://0w0.is/notice/AdTxzuX5mjll2Xkf32}}</ref><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* March 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* {{datetime|2024-01-30}}: {{URL|https://bear.community}}, a "18+ only Mastodon server for bears, chubbies and chasers" will shut down due to non-payment of hosting costs alongside the owner being unreachable. It was brought back online for 30 days so that existing users could export their data.<ref>{{URL|https://bear.community/@bootblackcub/111683360231381213}}</ref><br />
* January 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><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://cgsociety.org/|CGSociety}}, website and forum for digital artists, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xrender.cloud/news/120000008bd1649e018c5ce039c30011}}</ref><br />
* January 7: {{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/chat/res/112453.html|Ponychan}}, an old MLP:FIM imageboard website, will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January: {{URL|https://www.dkfindout.com/|DK Find Out!}}<br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.freddi.nl/|Freddi}} Louwman Groep has decided to stop this service do to low adoption rate <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 28: {{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/|Urban Decay}}, a cosmetics store, will cease taking orders.<ref>{{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/en_GB/closure-announcement.html}}</ref><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 22: {{URL|https://10play.com.au/studio-10|Studio 10}}, a breakfast show by Network 10.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CznGGC8yeol/}}</ref><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 15: Earliest possible date for [[Discord]] to begin requiring authentication parameters for attachment links.<br />
* December 15: 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
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* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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{{Infobox project<br />
| image = Argenteam-screenshot.png<br />
| URL = https://argenteam.net/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
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'''Argenteam''' (stylized as aRGENTeaM) was an Argentine fansub community. They made and hosted Spanish-language subtitles of movies and TV series; transcribed, translated and synced by its members.<br />
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On {{datetime|2023-12-04}}, the moderators [https://web.archive.org/web/20231210020055/https://foro.argenteam.net/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=185113 announced] that '''the website would be shutting down at the end of the year'''.<br />
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On {{datetime|2024-01-01}}, the website and forum were shut down.<br />
The website now hosts a shutdown notice, and [magnet:?xt=urn:btih:DBYJKHEO6UGINGYCSA4SMI44V7MYMTRA&dn=subtitulos-argenteam&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce a&nbsp;torrent with all the subtitles].<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
The main part of the website has individual pages for each movie (eg. <code><nowiki>https://argenteam.net/movie/148927/Saw.X.%282023%29</nowiki></code>) and TV series episode (eg. <code><nowiki>https://argenteam.net/episode/148548/Bodies.%282023%29.S01E04-Right.Up.the.Wazoo</nowiki></code>). These pages contain a synopsis, poster image, thumbnails, a link to download the subtitles, a magnet (BitTorrent) or ed2k link for the corresponding video file, and a link to the forum thread for that movie or episode.<br />
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There are also "TV shows" (collections of episodes), but the webpage URL for them (/tv/$id) just redirects to the first episode. They only really exist in the API (see below). TV show IDs aren't even visible in the webpage or API response of episodes.<br />
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There is a single ID space for both movies and episodes. The slug is unnecessary, but /movie/$id for a TV episode ID will redirect to the /episode, while /episode/$id for a movie ID will fail. Therefore, to enumerate all IDs, you have to use /movie/$id. The "canonical" URL with the slug is available in a <code><meta name="og:url"></code> tag.<br />
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By default, the website doesn't show magnet or ed2k links to download the actual videos, due to legal concerns.<br />
There is an option to switch it to "non-restricted mode" to enable showing the video links.<br />
This sets a cookie <code>tca=Y</code> and makes the server show magnet and ed2k links.<br />
Unfortunately, '''the website was archived without the cookie set, and thus in restricted mode''',<br />
so video links are not present in the wayback machine.<br />
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== API ==<br />
There is an API at <code><nowiki>https://argenteam.net/api/v1/</nowiki></code>. You can search by name with /api/v1/search?q=search_term. You can get information about a movie by ID using <code>/api/v1/movie/$id</code> or <code>/api/v1/movie?id=$id</code>. Same for TV episodes at /api/v1/episode. TV shows (collections of episodes) are at <code>/api/v1/tvshow/$id</code>.<br />
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TV shows have a list of episode IDs, but episodes don't link back to the TV show they belong to.<br />
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Similarly to the webpages, the movie API works with any kind of ID (maybe for compatibility), but the response doesn't say if it's a movie, episode, or tvshow.<br />
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There is some third-party [https://github.com/azarrias/argenteam-api-client/blob/80e3f04cadd5f45314de74c7a5b9d5f5cf634355/argenteam_api_client.py API client code on GitHub].<br />
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Data from the API was archived but not in WARC form,<br />
and it's still pending upload.<br />
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== Forum ==<br />
In addition, there is a [[phpBB]] forum at foro.argenteam.net with general discussion about subtitling and translations, and with threads for each and every movie and TV episode. (I have mostly seen just "subtitles are ready" and "thanks!!" posts in those per-movie threads, but some may have more extensive discussions.)<br />
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Unfortunately, large parts of the forum require login. Forum IDs 4, 11, 35, 46, 55, 63, 64 (as passed to viewforum.php?f=X) are publicly accessible. Forum IDs 1, 14, 27, 66, 67, 73, 85 require login. Anyone can register an account and access them, there are no additional restrictions, but archiving logged-in pages (and especially putting them on the Wayback Machine) is generally problematic. Other forums say "you have no permission to access this forum"; they're probably private forums used by moderators or by approved long-timer subtitle transcribers.<br />
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Login-walled forums were not archived.<br />
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== Archival ==<br />
Archivebot jobs:<br />
* {{Job|3vvm0qefkfcusc8udb2w3o05d}}: webpages<br />
* {{Job|9gffc8ccvxmgalp635cfwifs7}}: subtitles<br />
* {{Job|3lst139v0mkp5zltlvcwfsl7w}}: publicly-visible forums<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = URLs<br />
| URL = https://url.spec.whatwg.org/<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/urls-grab urls-grab]<br />[https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/urls-sources urls-sources]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/urls/ urls]<br />
| irc = //<br />
| data = {{IA id|archiveteam_urls}}<br />
| lead = [[User:Arkiver|arkiver]]<br />
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The '''URLs project''' is a continuous, generic, best-effort project to archive random URLs from a variety of sources, including external links discovered in other projects (such as [[Reddit]] and [[Telegram]]), news sites and feeds of interest crawled regularly from [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/urls-sources/ urls-sources], and lists queued manually in the IRC channel.<br />
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'''Important note''': If you run this project, you'll likely see your IP get banned from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, etc., and using those sites may become difficult (e.g. constant captchas, forced login). Also, if you run at significant speed, you'll likely see abuse notices, IP blacklists, and so on.<br />
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{{CTA URL lists}}<br />
#* Please '''briefly describe''' the content of your list and why it should be archived! A sentence or two is fine.<br />
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===Caveats===<br />
* Lists containing large numbers of URLs on one host are '''not''' appropriate here. This project runs at very high speed and can easily DDoS a server. If you would like a crawl of a single website, please request it in [[ArchiveBot|#archivebot]] instead.<br />
* Lists containing extremely important or endangered URLs are not appropriate here either. This project is best-effort only and does not track whether archival succeeded. If you would like to monitor the status of a list as it is archived, please request it in [[ArchiveBot|#archivebot]] instead.</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Template:CTA_URL_lists&diff=51461Template:CTA URL lists2024-01-04T00:06:31Z<p>Switchnode: move category link to hat position; tighten up prose</p>
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<div><includeonly>== How to help if you have lists of URLs ==<br />
: ''For other ArchiveTeam projects that can use this kind of help, see [[:Category:Projects requiring URL lists|Projects requiring URL lists]].''<br />
This project requires lists of URLs for content on the target website. If you have a source of URLs, please:<br />
{{ #if: {{{regex|}}} |<br />
# Use the PCRE regular expression <code>{{{regex}}}</code> for filtering.{{ #if: {{{broad|}}} |<br />
#* Note that this regex is intentionally broad to cover many different URL formats. Please do not try to use a more narrow pattern, as it may miss valid URLs. We can always filter or transform the results as needed later.}}<br />
#* Enable case-insensitive matching (e.g. grep's <code>-i</code>) to catch URLs with capitalization.<br />
#* If using grep or similar, enable text matching (<code>-a</code> or <code>--text</code>) to catch URLs in files with apparent binary data.<br />
#* Example command (GNU grep): <code>grep -Pahoi '{{{regex}}}' FILENAME FILENAME...</code>}}<br />
# If the {{ #if: {{{regex|}}} | output | list }} exceeds a few megabytes, please compress it, preferably using <code>zstd -10</code>.<br />
# Upload the file to https://transfer.archivete.am/.<br />
# Share the resulting URL in the project IRC channel.<br />
#* If you wish your list to remain private, please get in touch with a channel op (e.g. [[User:Arkiver|arkiver]] or [[User:JustAnotherArchivist|JustAnotherArchivist]]). Items generated from your list will still be processed publicly, but they will be mixed in with all other items and channel logs will not associate them with you.{{ #if: {{{suppresscategory|}}} ||[[Category:Projects requiring URL lists]]}}</includeonly><noinclude><br />
Options:<br />
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* <code>regex</code>, required, the PCRE regular expression to use for filtering, will get wrapped in single quotes for the grep command<br />
** Technically, this isn't actually required, but only for use on [[URLs]].<br />
* <code>broad</code>, optional, adding an extra bit about the regex being intentionally broad if non-empty<br />
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Example:<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* March 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* {{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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* January 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><br />
* January 7: {{URL|https://www.ponychan.net/chat/res/112453.html|Ponychan}}, an old MLP:FIM imageboard website, will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
* January: {{URL|https://www.dkfindout.com/|DK Find Out!}}<br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.freddi.nl/|Freddi}} Louwman Groep has decided to stop this service do to low adoption rate <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/|Baanboard}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|http://www.baanboard.com/node/5560}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 28: {{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/|Urban Decay}}, a cosmetics store, will cease taking orders.<ref>{{URL|https://www.urbandecay.co.uk/en_GB/closure-announcement.html}}</ref><br />
* December 25: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 22: {{URL|https://10play.com.au/studio-10|Studio 10}}, a breakfast show by Network 10.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/reel/CznGGC8yeol/}}</ref><br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://www.aqnb.com/|AQNB}}<br />
* December 21: {{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/}}, the biggest women forum (running vBulletin) in Poland active since 2001, will enter read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://wizaz.pl/forum/showthread.php?t=1290745}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* December 15: Earliest possible date for [[Discord]] to begin requiring authentication parameters for attachment links.<br />
* December 15: 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>= Argentina End of Term Archive 2023: Preserving Vital Digital Heritage =<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
'''Objective:''' This initiative is dedicated to identifying and cataloging key Argentine websites facing the threat of discontinuation in light of recent policy announcements by the incoming government, set to assume power on December 10th, 2023. Our mission is to safeguard crucial digital resources, ensuring their availability for historical research and educational purposes in the face of impending policy shifts.<br />
<br />
'''Focus''' The project zeroes in on websites pivotal to Argentina's educational, cultural, and environmental landscape, as well as other sites of significance, that are vulnerable under the forthcoming administrative changes.<br />
<br />
== Guidelines for Adding Websites ==<br />
'''Criteria for Inclusion:''' Eligible websites should be integral to Argentina’s cultural fabric, educational landscape, environmental preservation, or public discourse, and be susceptible to the imminent policy alterations.<br />
<br />
'''How to Add:''' To contribute, please add websites that meet the above criteria using this format: <nowiki>* [http://www.example.com.ar Name of the Website] - Brief description or status (e.g., saved )</nowiki><br />
<br />
== List of At-Risk Websites == <br />
<br />
=== Educational Websites ===<br />
* [https://www.biblioteca.mincyt.gob.ar/ Biblioteca de tecnología] - {{job|89gyvxv0r7gjh6kxm8u598th9}}<br />
* [http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/ Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros] - {{job|dttngezhujszg6n3ovlp2onik}}<br />
* [https://www.educ.ar/ Educ.ar] - {{job|14pkgz5pvr173k46gj42h7ddw}}<br />
* [http://koha.educacion.gob.ar/ Koha Educacion] - {{job|n4ld1w1jmptd8bnigf0ut3zi}}<br />
* [https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/ Biblioteca Repositorio CLACSO] - {{job|6lmjioldoeep5zpnolnk0ugzl}}<br />
* [https://red.infd.edu.ar/ Red de Formación Docente] - {{job|3gwnmy5eyqfk52ccvfm93e46e}}<br />
* [https://www.ign.gob.ar/NuestrasActividades/ProduccionCartografica/Principal Cartografías] - {{job|3xpzkmm7r2oa7rxmdkz98b4ll}}<br />
<br />
=== Gender and Equality ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/generos Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://editorial.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Editorial del Ministerio de Genero] - Urgent; {{job|dsjhm2aq4s40cqorxrweawmr3}}<br />
* [https://datos-abiertos.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Datos Abiertos del Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|3ny6ar3rh1wsqpb10wzgmirsg}} (nginx placeholder page as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}})<br />
* [https://mapafederaldelcuidado.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Federal del Cuidado - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8e2adft71kq2mctvrk44oz4jv}}<br />
* [https://mapagenerar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Generar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|12xh6chibj7weds5jsrpua5hp}}<br />
* [https://mevym.mingeneros.gob.ar/ MEVyM - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|7h5flu35q0gpqbg6hqplhoszr}}<br />
* [https://nosotrasmovemoselmundo.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Nosotras Movemos el Mundo - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8shn3f4jgixz8ku7ypxhppu27}}<br />
* [https://presupuesto-genero.argentina.gob.ar/ Presupuesto Genero - Argentina] - {{job|94w0om5io93tg1eymi9vvlwnu}}<br />
* [https://prevencion.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Prevencion - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9c83a8him51e3ccdkq4xdwunz}}<br />
* [https://tableroacompanar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Acompañar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9mrwa1kqq0lj34omu28hdtxc9}}<br />
* [https://tableropad.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero PAD - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|c4q5iaq8vgvewv9qep67wm7y4}}<br />
* [https://tableroproducir.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Producir - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|cxkbrke2tpcjgevcrit43rgm4}}<br />
* [https://tejiendomatria.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tejiendo Matria - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|djzehn7rv47hda9dp4yul7ceh}}<br />
* [https://videollamada144.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Videollamada 144 - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|223cxdyjzu9t0qpzk5wx7dddh}}<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/recurso/folleto-interrupcion-del-embarazo-con-medicamentos Folleto Interrupción del Embarazo con Medicamentos] - {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
<br />
=== Health and Wellness ===<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/bancos/materiales-para-poblacion Banco de Materiales para Población - Salud] - Urgent; {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
<br />
=== Cultural Production and the Arts ===<br />
* [https://cine.ar/ Cine.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.cck.gob.ar/ CCK - Centro Cultural Kirchner] - {{job|11nejd1f048vl3f5597de5hw7}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@cckirchner CCK - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/7LvAv/youtube-channel-UCgeJ2J9pBmuTyNHCwHh1WvA.txt items])<br />
<br />
=== Public Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.telam.com.ar/ Telam] - Urgent; {{job|9zj4wytq44ekjbj486sbo2bic}}<br />
* [https://cont.ar/ Cont.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.tvpublica.com.ar/ TV Publica] - {{job|cu8rk32h4whozphf1rkbhlej6}}<br />
* [https://encuentro.gob.ar/ Canal Encuentro] - {{job|44pdj4kymzmafgjlabuvsm9rr}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@encuentro Canal Encuentro - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/9jPHy/youtube-channel-UC1zLDoKL-eKmd_K7qkUZ-ow.txt items])<br />
* [https://inventar.pakapaka.gob.ar/ Paka Paka] - {{job|6gam1pp8gdvs52dk3n6d3pypv}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@casarosada Casa Rosada - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/fakMT/youtube-channel-UCXOIosipLXV0p_35MjTu0Aw.txt items])<br />
<br />
=== Independent Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.anred.org/ ANRed] - {{job|2qloji8dz7llrietxoc54tvcd}}<br />
* [https://pulsonoticias.com.ar/ Pulso Noticias] - {{job|734bpouhvuicf1d2ekh5mms36}}<br />
* [http://atom.argra.org.ar/ ARGRA] - {{job|8zmkm2n29dwrvf98as8ylu5le}}<br />
* [https://enfantterrible.com.ar/ Enfant Terrible] - {{job|gx2uaszycpg8jeux6ec71mz7}}<br />
* [https://latinta.com.ar/ La Tinta] - {{job|6nqjxdes00rroh64ss751gwo1}}<br />
<br />
=== Memory and Human Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.espaciomemoria.ar/ Espacio Memoria] - Urgent; {{job|1h4bf9zm8oz91itb41krjjh0m}} (WordPress error as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}}, working again as of {{datetime|2023-12-07}})<br />
* [https://www.espaciomemoria.ar/memoriaencasa/inicio Subsitio educacional: Memoria en Casa] - Urgent; {{job|eulkkzn5ae2xa1tkx8eypq9e5}}<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/@espaciomemoria Espacio Memoria - YouTube] - Urgent; [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/tj6Z0/youtube-channel-UCJRl_P6YEeDYOX7yVzVRWDw.txt items])<br />
* [https://farodelamemoria.org/ Faro de la Memoria] - {{job|1if6pud4v3vsgnv9qowyex2ud}}<br />
* [http://www.museositioesma.gob.ar/ Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA] - {{job|9lnj5vw92m9nrcen2xejxic8c}}<br />
* [https://catalogo.jus.gob.ar/ Catálogo de Justicia] - {{job|arik0x08h440d92re3lvh7kxo}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos Derechos Humanos - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/ANM ANM - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [http://www.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ Juicios de Lesa Humanidad] - {{job|798gez2v80dto6mp0jclubfcz}}<br />
* [https://api.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ API - Juicios de Lesa Humanidad] - {{job|9bhqrvyobu9te4lvtifvpyg1s}}<br />
* [https://comechingonesdelpueblodelatoma.blogspot.com/ Comechingones del Pueblo de la Toma] - {{job|kdlpuio0cvmsvq2bgpi9zgg3}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
* [http://conti.derhuman.jus.gov.ar/ Conti - Derechos Humanos] - {{job|f3s3gy5jzcrf0o1ihza0kib9z}}<br />
* [https://www.exccdolimpo.org.ar/ CCDTyE Olimpo] - Urgent; {{job|brdeafg452dm26mn8whpbsg13}}<br />
* [https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/ Fiscalías] - Urgent; {{job|58i6j1btizuco6xu24zdedsr0}}<br />
* [https://memoriaexatletico.blogspot.com/ Memoria Ex Átletico] - Urgent; {{job|6ginomfob7c1nvlov6sihef8o}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
* [https://40democracia.gob.ar/ 40 años de democracia] - Urgent; {{job|shae4hqp7vw6uc83ddgl6pjy}}<br />
* [https://www.lasleyesdeladictadura.com.ar/ Las Leyes de la Dictadura] - Urgent; {{job|dk1eoorem401oq4xsjev2nen}}<br />
* [https://twitter..com/SinFinInvestiga/ Las Leyes de la Dictadura - Twitter] - {{job|4er2kzv80a19t09sf11u0qu0z}}<br />
* [https://democraciaenred.ar/ Democracia en Red] - {{job|5em1kni2a7170dfm0x6481igf}}<br />
* [https://malvinasenlaescuela.educ.ar/ Malvinas en la Escuela] - Urgent; {{job|dnmlzgv3uh4vuwx4e0ccisto4}}<br />
<br />
=== Environmental Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ambiente Ministerio de Ambiente] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
<br />
=== Digital Infrastructure ===<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@nicar NIC Argentina - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/tj6Z0/youtube-channel-UCJRl_P6YEeDYOX7yVzVRWDw.txt items])<br />
* [https://twitter.com/nicargentina NIC Argentina - Twitter] - {{job|e913kf5t7t7kufa0mmftabciv}}</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Argentina&diff=51276Argentina2023-12-06T17:47:28Z<p>Switchnode: /* Memory and Human Rights */ add archivebot job for juicios de lesa humanidad api</p>
<hr />
<div>= Argentina End of Term Archive 2023: Preserving Vital Digital Heritage =<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
'''Objective:''' This initiative is dedicated to identifying and cataloging key Argentine websites facing the threat of discontinuation in light of recent policy announcements by the incoming government, set to assume power on December 10th, 2023. Our mission is to safeguard crucial digital resources, ensuring their availability for historical research and educational purposes in the face of impending policy shifts.<br />
<br />
'''Focus''' The project zeroes in on websites pivotal to Argentina's educational, cultural, and environmental landscape, as well as other sites of significance, that are vulnerable under the forthcoming administrative changes.<br />
<br />
== Guidelines for Adding Websites ==<br />
'''Criteria for Inclusion:''' Eligible websites should be integral to Argentina’s cultural fabric, educational landscape, environmental preservation, or public discourse, and be susceptible to the imminent policy alterations.<br />
<br />
'''How to Add:''' To contribute, please add websites that meet the above criteria using this format: <nowiki>* [http://www.example.com.ar Name of the Website] - Brief description or status (e.g., saved )</nowiki><br />
<br />
== List of At-Risk Websites == <br />
<br />
=== Educational Websites ===<br />
* [https://www.biblioteca.mincyt.gob.ar/ Biblioteca de tecnología] - {{job|89gyvxv0r7gjh6kxm8u598th9}}<br />
* [http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/ Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros] - {{job|dttngezhujszg6n3ovlp2onik}}<br />
* [https://www.educ.ar/ Educ.ar] - {{job|14pkgz5pvr173k46gj42h7ddw}}<br />
* [http://koha.educacion.gob.ar/ Koha Educacion] - {{job|n4ld1w1jmptd8bnigf0ut3zi}}<br />
* [https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/ Biblioteca Repositorio CLACSO] - {{job|6lmjioldoeep5zpnolnk0ugzl}}<br />
* [https://red.infd.edu.ar/ Red de Formación Docente] - {{job|3gwnmy5eyqfk52ccvfm93e46e}}<br />
* [https://www.ign.gob.ar/NuestrasActividades/ProduccionCartografica/Principal Cartografías] - {{job|3xpzkmm7r2oa7rxmdkz98b4ll}}<br />
<br />
=== Gender and Equality ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/generos Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://editorial.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Editorial del Ministerio de Genero] - Urgent; {{job|dsjhm2aq4s40cqorxrweawmr3}}<br />
* [https://datos-abiertos.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Datos Abiertos del Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|3ny6ar3rh1wsqpb10wzgmirsg}} (nginx placeholder page as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}})<br />
* [https://mapafederaldelcuidado.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Federal del Cuidado - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8e2adft71kq2mctvrk44oz4jv}}<br />
* [https://mapagenerar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Generar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|12xh6chibj7weds5jsrpua5hp}}<br />
* [https://mevym.mingeneros.gob.ar/ MEVyM - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|7h5flu35q0gpqbg6hqplhoszr}}<br />
* [https://nosotrasmovemoselmundo.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Nosotras Movemos el Mundo - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8shn3f4jgixz8ku7ypxhppu27}}<br />
* [https://presupuesto-genero.argentina.gob.ar/ Presupuesto Genero - Argentina] - {{job|94w0om5io93tg1eymi9vvlwnu}}<br />
* [https://prevencion.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Prevencion - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9c83a8him51e3ccdkq4xdwunz}}<br />
* [https://tableroacompanar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Acompañar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9mrwa1kqq0lj34omu28hdtxc9}}<br />
* [https://tableropad.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero PAD - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|c4q5iaq8vgvewv9qep67wm7y4}}<br />
* [https://tableroproducir.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Producir - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|cxkbrke2tpcjgevcrit43rgm4}}<br />
* [https://tejiendomatria.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tejiendo Matria - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|djzehn7rv47hda9dp4yul7ceh}}<br />
* [https://videollamada144.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Videollamada 144 - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|223cxdyjzu9t0qpzk5wx7dddh}}<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/recurso/folleto-interrupcion-del-embarazo-con-medicamentos Folleto Interrupción del Embarazo con Medicamentos] - {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
<br />
=== Health and Wellness ===<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/bancos/materiales-para-poblacion Banco de Materiales para Población - Salud] - Urgent; {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
<br />
=== Cultural Production and the Arts ===<br />
* [https://cine.ar/ Cine.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.cck.gob.ar/ CCK - Centro Cultural Kirchner] - {{job|11nejd1f048vl3f5597de5hw7}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@cckirchner CCK - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/7LvAv/youtube-channel-UCgeJ2J9pBmuTyNHCwHh1WvA.txt items])<br />
<br />
=== Public Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.telam.com.ar/ Telam] - Urgent; {{job|9zj4wytq44ekjbj486sbo2bic}}<br />
* [https://cont.ar/ Cont.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.tvpublica.com.ar/ TV Publica] - {{job|cu8rk32h4whozphf1rkbhlej6}}<br />
* [https://encuentro.gob.ar/ Canal Encuentro] - {{job|44pdj4kymzmafgjlabuvsm9rr}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@encuentro Canal Encuentro - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/9jPHy/youtube-channel-UC1zLDoKL-eKmd_K7qkUZ-ow.txt items])<br />
* [https://inventar.pakapaka.gob.ar/ Paka Paka] - {{job|6gam1pp8gdvs52dk3n6d3pypv}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@casarosada Casa Rosada - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/fakMT/youtube-channel-UCXOIosipLXV0p_35MjTu0Aw.txt items])<br />
<br />
=== Independent Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.anred.org/ ANRed] - {{job|2qloji8dz7llrietxoc54tvcd}}<br />
* [https://pulsonoticias.com.ar/ Pulso Noticias] - {{job|734bpouhvuicf1d2ekh5mms36}}<br />
* [http://atom.argra.org.ar/ ARGRA] - {{job|8zmkm2n29dwrvf98as8ylu5le}}<br />
* [https://enfantterrible.com.ar/ Enfant Terrible] - {{job|gx2uaszycpg8jeux6ec71mz7}}<br />
* [https://latinta.com.ar/ La Tinta] - {{job|6nqjxdes00rroh64ss751gwo1}}<br />
<br />
=== Memory and Human Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.espaciomemoria.ar/ Espacio Memoria] - Urgent; {{job|1h4bf9zm8oz91itb41krjjh0m}} (WordPress error as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}})<br />
* [https://farodelamemoria.org/ Faro de la Memoria] - {{job|1if6pud4v3vsgnv9qowyex2ud}}<br />
* [http://www.museositioesma.gob.ar/ Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA] - {{job|9lnj5vw92m9nrcen2xejxic8c}}<br />
* [https://catalogo.jus.gob.ar/ Catálogo de Justicia] - {{job|arik0x08h440d92re3lvh7kxo}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos Derechos Humanos - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/ANM ANM - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [http://www.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ Juicios de Lesa Humanidad] - {{job|798gez2v80dto6mp0jclubfcz}}<br />
* [https://api.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ API - Juicios de Lesa Humanidad] - {{job|9bhqrvyobu9te4lvtifvpyg1s}}<br />
* [https://comechingonesdelpueblodelatoma.blogspot.com/ Comechingones del Pueblo de la Toma] - {{job|kdlpuio0cvmsvq2bgpi9zgg3}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
* [http://conti.derhuman.jus.gov.ar/ Conti - Derechos Humanos] - {{job|f3s3gy5jzcrf0o1ihza0kib9z}}<br />
* [https://www.exccdolimpo.org.ar/ CCDTyE Olimpo] - Urgent; {{job|brdeafg452dm26mn8whpbsg13}}<br />
* [https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/ Fiscalías] - Urgent; {{job|58i6j1btizuco6xu24zdedsr0}}<br />
* [https://memoriaexatletico.blogspot.com/ Memoria Ex Átletico] - Urgent; {{job|6ginomfob7c1nvlov6sihef8o}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
<br />
=== Environmental Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ambiente Ministerio de Ambiente] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Argentina&diff=51275Argentina2023-12-06T06:57:37Z<p>Switchnode: /* List of At-Risk Websites */ add archivebot + youtube jobs</p>
<hr />
<div>= Argentina End of Term Archive 2023: Preserving Vital Digital Heritage =<br />
<br />
== Introduction ==<br />
'''Objective:''' This initiative is dedicated to identifying and cataloging key Argentine websites facing the threat of discontinuation in light of recent policy announcements by the incoming government, set to assume power on December 10th, 2023. Our mission is to safeguard crucial digital resources, ensuring their availability for historical research and educational purposes in the face of impending policy shifts.<br />
<br />
'''Focus''' The project zeroes in on websites pivotal to Argentina's educational, cultural, and environmental landscape, as well as other sites of significance, that are vulnerable under the forthcoming administrative changes.<br />
<br />
== Guidelines for Adding Websites ==<br />
'''Criteria for Inclusion:''' Eligible websites should be integral to Argentina’s cultural fabric, educational landscape, environmental preservation, or public discourse, and be susceptible to the imminent policy alterations.<br />
<br />
'''How to Add:''' To contribute, please add websites that meet the above criteria using this format: <nowiki>* [http://www.example.com.ar Name of the Website] - Brief description or status (e.g., saved )</nowiki><br />
<br />
== List of At-Risk Websites == <br />
<br />
=== Educational Websites ===<br />
* [https://www.biblioteca.mincyt.gob.ar/ Biblioteca de tecnología] - {{job|89gyvxv0r7gjh6kxm8u598th9}}<br />
* [http://www.bnm.me.gov.ar/ Biblioteca Nacional de Maestros] - {{job|dttngezhujszg6n3ovlp2onik}}<br />
* [https://www.educ.ar/ Educ.ar] - {{job|14pkgz5pvr173k46gj42h7ddw}}<br />
* [http://koha.educacion.gob.ar/ Koha Educacion] - {{job|n4ld1w1jmptd8bnigf0ut3zi}}<br />
* [https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/ Biblioteca Repositorio CLACSO] - {{job|6lmjioldoeep5zpnolnk0ugzl}}<br />
* [https://red.infd.edu.ar/ Red de Formación Docente] - {{job|3gwnmy5eyqfk52ccvfm93e46e}}<br />
* [https://www.ign.gob.ar/NuestrasActividades/ProduccionCartografica/Principal Cartografías] - {{job|3xpzkmm7r2oa7rxmdkz98b4ll}}<br />
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=== Gender and Equality ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/generos Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://editorial.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Editorial del Ministerio de Genero] - Urgent; {{job|dsjhm2aq4s40cqorxrweawmr3}}<br />
* [https://datos-abiertos.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Datos Abiertos del Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|3ny6ar3rh1wsqpb10wzgmirsg}} (nginx placeholder page as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}})<br />
* [https://mapafederaldelcuidado.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Federal del Cuidado - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8e2adft71kq2mctvrk44oz4jv}}<br />
* [https://mapagenerar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Mapa Generar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|12xh6chibj7weds5jsrpua5hp}}<br />
* [https://mevym.mingeneros.gob.ar/ MEVyM - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|7h5flu35q0gpqbg6hqplhoszr}}<br />
* [https://nosotrasmovemoselmundo.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Nosotras Movemos el Mundo - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|8shn3f4jgixz8ku7ypxhppu27}}<br />
* [https://presupuesto-genero.argentina.gob.ar/ Presupuesto Genero - Argentina] - {{job|94w0om5io93tg1eymi9vvlwnu}}<br />
* [https://prevencion.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Prevencion - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9c83a8him51e3ccdkq4xdwunz}}<br />
* [https://tableroacompanar.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Acompañar - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|9mrwa1kqq0lj34omu28hdtxc9}}<br />
* [https://tableropad.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero PAD - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|c4q5iaq8vgvewv9qep67wm7y4}}<br />
* [https://tableroproducir.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tablero Producir - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|cxkbrke2tpcjgevcrit43rgm4}}<br />
* [https://tejiendomatria.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Tejiendo Matria - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|djzehn7rv47hda9dp4yul7ceh}}<br />
* [https://videollamada144.mingeneros.gob.ar/ Videollamada 144 - Ministerio de Genero] - {{job|223cxdyjzu9t0qpzk5wx7dddh}}<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/recurso/folleto-interrupcion-del-embarazo-con-medicamentos Folleto Interrupción del Embarazo con Medicamentos] - {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
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=== Health and Wellness ===<br />
* [https://bancos.salud.gob.ar/bancos/materiales-para-poblacion Banco de Materiales para Población - Salud] - Urgent; {{job|af2pypmxwrudtak9y0639sn36}}<br />
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=== Cultural Production and the Arts ===<br />
* [https://cine.ar/ Cine.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.cck.gob.ar/ CCK - Centro Cultural Kirchner] - {{job|11nejd1f048vl3f5597de5hw7}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@cckirchner CCK - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/7LvAv/youtube-channel-UCgeJ2J9pBmuTyNHCwHh1WvA.txt items])<br />
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=== Public Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.telam.com.ar/ Telam] - Urgent; {{job|9zj4wytq44ekjbj486sbo2bic}}<br />
* [https://cont.ar/ Cont.ar] - Cloudflare, needs local IP<br />
* [https://www.tvpublica.com.ar/ TV Publica] - {{job|cu8rk32h4whozphf1rkbhlej6}}<br />
* [https://encuentro.gob.ar/ Canal Encuentro] - {{job|44pdj4kymzmafgjlabuvsm9rr}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@encuentro Canal Encuentro - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/9jPHy/youtube-channel-UC1zLDoKL-eKmd_K7qkUZ-ow.txt items])<br />
* [https://inventar.pakapaka.gob.ar/ Paka Paka] - {{job|6gam1pp8gdvs52dk3n6d3pypv}}<br />
* [https://youtube.com/@casarosada Casa Rosada - YouTube] - [[YouTube]] archival ([https://transfer.archivete.am/fakMT/youtube-channel-UCXOIosipLXV0p_35MjTu0Aw.txt items])<br />
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=== Independent Media and Communication ===<br />
* [https://www.anred.org/ ANRed] - {{job|2qloji8dz7llrietxoc54tvcd}}<br />
* [https://pulsonoticias.com.ar/ Pulso Noticias] - {{job|734bpouhvuicf1d2ekh5mms36}}<br />
* [http://atom.argra.org.ar/ ARGRA] - {{job|8zmkm2n29dwrvf98as8ylu5le}}<br />
* [https://enfantterrible.com.ar/ Enfant Terrible] - {{job|gx2uaszycpg8jeux6ec71mz7}}<br />
* [https://latinta.com.ar/ La Tinta] - {{job|6nqjxdes00rroh64ss751gwo1}}<br />
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=== Memory and Human Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.espaciomemoria.ar/ Espacio Memoria] - Urgent; {{job|1h4bf9zm8oz91itb41krjjh0m}} (WordPress error as of {{datetime|2023-12-06}})<br />
* [https://farodelamemoria.org/ Faro de la Memoria] - {{job|1if6pud4v3vsgnv9qowyex2ud}}<br />
* [http://www.museositioesma.gob.ar/ Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA] - {{job|9lnj5vw92m9nrcen2xejxic8c}}<br />
* [https://catalogo.jus.gob.ar/ Catálogo de Justicia] - {{job|arik0x08h440d92re3lvh7kxo}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos Derechos Humanos - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/derechoshumanos/ANM ANM - Argentina] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}<br />
* [http://www.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ Juicios de Lesa Humanidad] - {{job|798gez2v80dto6mp0jclubfcz}}<br />
* [https://api.juiciosdelesahumanidad.ar/ API - Juicios de Lesa Humanidad]<br />
* [https://comechingonesdelpueblodelatoma.blogspot.com/ Comechingones del Pueblo de la Toma] - {{job|kdlpuio0cvmsvq2bgpi9zgg3}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
* [http://conti.derhuman.jus.gov.ar/ Conti - Derechos Humanos] - {{job|f3s3gy5jzcrf0o1ihza0kib9z}}<br />
* [https://www.exccdolimpo.org.ar/ CCDTyE Olimpo] - Urgent; {{job|brdeafg452dm26mn8whpbsg13}}<br />
* [https://www.fiscales.gob.ar/ Fiscalías] - Urgent; {{job|58i6j1btizuco6xu24zdedsr0}}<br />
* [https://memoriaexatletico.blogspot.com/ Memoria Ex Átletico] - Urgent; {{job|6ginomfob7c1nvlov6sihef8o}} (plus [[Blogspot]] archival)<br />
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=== Environmental Rights ===<br />
* [https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ambiente Ministerio de Ambiente] - {{job|dg9n0eblfa0etskxv83h5g2hf}}</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=51222Deathwatch2023-11-27T15:14:35Z<p>Switchnode: /* 2024 */ add hardware.info</p>
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://sites.rootsweb.com/|RootsWeb sites}} will be made read-only on January 1 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.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* January 14: {{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><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.freddi.nl/|Freddi}} Louwman Groep has decided to stop this service do to low adoption rate <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* End of the year: {{URL|https://onehallyu.com/|OneHallyu}}<ref>{{URL|https://onehallyu.com/topic/867283-onehallyu-will-be-closing-at-the-end-of-2023/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://ohiohistorycentral.org/|Ohio History Central}}, a wiki by the non-profit Ohio History Connection<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.larm.fm/|LARM.fm}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://store.okadabooks.com/|Okada Books}}, Nigeria’s pioneer digital publishing and bookselling platform, will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://techcabal.com/2023/11/20/okada-books-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* February 2: 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><br />
* Early February: {{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>, but a surge in donations shifted the date a few days later<ref>{{URL|1=https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=19567418#p19567418}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* Unknown: [https://v3rmillion.net/ V3rmillion], a mainly [[Roblox]] exploiting forum, will shutdown this year. While they did not give a strong deadline for when everything (site and user data) is deleted, the soft deadline to sell the domain is on the 13th of November.<ref>{{URL|1=https://v3rmillion.net/showthread.php?tid=1218438}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://i.imgur.com/LelpnlJ.png}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.wilko.com/|wilko.com}}, a shop going into administration<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/18/christmas-and-halloween-items-in-wilko-everything-must-go-sale}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd|Dungeons & Dragons page on former Japanese distributor Hobby Japan}} is shutting 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tensorboard.dev/|Tensor Board}} is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37820319}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/}}, family tree software for The Sims, will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://theplumtreeapp.com/sunset}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://dotup.org/|どっとうpろだ.org}} (dotup.org), a Japanese file hosting service launched in 2006<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* October 31: Amazons live music app, {{URL|https://www.onamp.com/|Amp}}, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/04/amazon-shuts-down-amp-live-audio-service.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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>.<br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://pebble.is/|Pebble.is}} (t2.social)<ref>{{URL|https://pebble.is/gabor/status/340649}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 27: {{URL|https://www.handshake.com/|Handshake Markeplace}}<ref>{{URL|https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/wholesale/handshake/faq}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] terminated their service. Uploads stopped on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a Canadian file host, shut down.<br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, permanently turned down.<br />
* 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><br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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/<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
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===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://codingforum.net|CodingForum}} was going to shut downwhen 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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.wilko.com/|wilko.com}}, a shop going into administration<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/18/christmas-and-halloween-items-in-wilko-everything-must-go-sale}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 1: [[PIXNET]], the largest blogging service in Taiwan, will bulk delete inactive accounts.<ref>{{URL|https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232}}</ref><br />
* By December 1: {{URL|https://forum.xentax.com/index.php|XeNTaX}}, a modding and game research forum, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281}}</ref><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* 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}}) will be 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 22: {{URL|http://codingforum.net}} will shut down when its vBulletin plan expires<ref>{{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/XpJ0N/CodingForum.net.txt|Email}}</ref><br />
* October 21: {{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/|Pinstriped Prospects}}, a blog covering the New York Yankees minor league system, has announced it's shutting down in 2 weeks due to low readership.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/pinstriped-prospects-website-shutting-down-65038/}}</ref><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 17: {{URL|https://videos.sapo.pt/|SAPO Vídeos}} will remove 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><br />
* September 6: [[Kongregate]] removes 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a canadian file host will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
<br />
===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.wilko.com/|wilko.com}}, a shop going into administration<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/18/christmas-and-halloween-items-in-wilko-everything-must-go-sale}}</ref><br />
* By December 31: {{URL|https://forum.xentax.com/index.php|XeNTaX}}, a modding and game research forum, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://litreactor.com|LitReactor}}, a writing community, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|https://litreactor.com/news/litreactor-the-end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 1: [[PIXNET]], the largest blogging service in Taiwan, will bulk delete inactive accounts.<ref>{{URL|https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232}}</ref><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* 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}}) will be 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 22: {{URL|http://codingforum.net}} will shut down when its vBulletin plan expires<ref>{{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/XpJ0N/CodingForum.net.txt|Email}}</ref><br />
* October 21: {{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/|Pinstriped Prospects}}, a blog covering the New York Yankees minor league system, has announced it's shutting down in 2 weeks due to low readership.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pinstripedprospects.com/pinstriped-prospects-website-shutting-down-65038/}}</ref><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 17: {{URL|https://videos.sapo.pt/|SAPO Vídeos}} will remove 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><br />
* September 6: [[Kongregate]] removes 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a canadian file host will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2028 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* July 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* February 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://www.wilko.com/|wilko.com}}, a shop going into administration<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/aug/18/christmas-and-halloween-items-in-wilko-everything-must-go-sale}}</ref><br />
* By December 31: {{URL|https://forum.xentax.com/index.php|XeNTaX}}, a modding and game research forum, will go offline.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=27281}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/|Squat the Planet}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://squattheplanet.com/threads/squat-the-planet-will-be-shutting-down-at-the-end-of-2023.44627/}}</ref><br />
* December 1: [[PIXNET]], the largest blogging service in Taiwan, will bulk delete inactive accounts.<ref>{{URL|https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232}}</ref><br />
* October-December: 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><br />
* 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}}) will be 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 22: {{URL|http://codingforum.net}} will shut down when its vBulletin plan expires<ref>{{URL|https://transfer.archivete.am/XpJ0N/CodingForum.net.txt|Email}}</ref><br />
* October 5: [[Pages Perso Orange]]<br />
* October 1: {{URL|https://forum.canucks.com|Official Canucks Forum}}, the official forums for the Canucks hockey team is shutting down for undisclosed reasons. <br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[FOIAonline]]<br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 17: {{URL|https://videos.sapo.pt/|SAPO Vídeos}} will remove 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><br />
* September 6: [[Kongregate]] removes 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><br />
* Between September 1 and December 31: in Q4 2023, {{URL|https://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/Main_Page|QNAPedia}} will shut down<br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.filegenie.com/|Filegenie}}, a canadian file host will shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 10: {{URL|https://discordlist.me/|DiscordList}}, a third-party list of [[Discord]] 'servers'.<ref>{{URL|https://discordlist.me/good-bye}}</ref><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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).<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pages_Perso_Orange&diff=50937Pages Perso Orange2023-10-05T14:39:02Z<p>Switchnode: it's over</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| logo = Logo-orange.png<br />
| URL = https://pages.perso.orange.fr/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{saved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/pagespersoorange/ pagespersoorange]<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/pagespersoorange-grab pagespersoorange-grab]<br />
| irc = webroasting<br />
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'''Pages Perso Orange''' is the [[ISP Hosting]] service of French provider Orange. It was originally to shut down on {{datetime|2023-09-05}}<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref> but got extended to {{datetime|2023-10-05}}<ref>Notice on {{URL|https://pages.perso.orange.fr/}}</ref>.<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
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Sites are identified by a slug of the form <code>[-_.A-Za-z0-9]+</code>.<br />
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Orange's hosting has gone through a number of rebrandings and transitions, and as such URL structure is somewhat messy.<br />
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* <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>monsite-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
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* <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>pagesperso-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
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* <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 403 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
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Some assets are at <code>monsite.woopic.com</code> or <code>*.cdn.woopic.com</code>.<br />
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== Archival ==<br />
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Sites were discovered using IA CDX search and [http://annuaire-pp.orange.fr/ Orange's directory].<br />
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Initial [[ArchiveBot]] jobs were not able to complete in time and were superseded by a [[DPoS]] project to circumvent rate limits. Bans took the form of connection timeouts, were approximately 24 hours long, and appeared to be triggered by high request rates for 4xx pages on non-CDN domains; once received they applied to all main and CDN domains.<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references /></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ZOWA&diff=50923ZOWA2023-10-02T07:04:04Z<p>Switchnode: add archive year</p>
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| title = ZOWA<br />
| logo = ZOWA-logo.png<br />
| image = Zowa-screenshot.png<br />
| URL = https://zowa.app/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{saved|date=2023}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/zowa-grab zowa-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/zowa/ zowa]<br />
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'''ZOWA''' is a Japanese ASMR video sharing and discussion board service, established in 2018. Uploads will no longer be accepted from {{datetime|2023-07-31}}, and the service will be closed on {{datetime|2023-09-29|12:00|JST|+9}}.<ref>{{url|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
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The website is made of [https://nuxt.com/ Nuxt], and there are also iOS<ref>{{url|1=https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/zowa/id1437486224|2=「ZOWA」をApp Storeで}}</ref> and Android<ref>{{url|1=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.eisys.zowa.jp.co.eisys.zowa|2=ZOWA - Google Play のアプリ}}</ref> apps that will be removed in September 2023.<br />
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=== ASMR video hosting ===<br />
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* ASMRtist (User): https://zowa.app/rtist/1<br />
* ASMR video: https://zowa.app/play/11<br />
* Playlist: https://zowa.app/feature/7<br />
* Tag: https://zowa.app/search/result?tag=4<br />
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=== Original audios works ===<br />
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* Public series list: https://fun.zowa.app/titles/<br />
* Series: https://fun.zowa.app/titles/lilyquartet<br />
* Work: https://zowa.app/audios/5<br />
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=== Zch (Discussion board) ===<br />
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* Thread: https://zowa.app/zch/threads/1<br />
* Text-to-speech comments: https://zowa.app/videos/870<br />
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== Domains ==<br />
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The following domains are currently functional:<br />
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* asmr.zowa.app<br />
* zowa.app<br />
* api.zowa.app<br />
* help.zowa.app<br />
* fun.zowa.app<br />
* zowartist.zowa.app<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| URL = https://pages.perso.orange.fr/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/pagespersoorange/ pagespersoorange]<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/pagespersoorange-grab pagespersoorange-grab]<br />
| irc = webroasting<br />
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'''Pages Perso Orange''' is the [[ISP Hosting]] service of French provider Orange. It was originally to shut down on {{datetime|2023-09-05}}<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref> but got extended to {{datetime|2023-10-05}}<ref>Notice on {{URL|https://pages.perso.orange.fr/}}</ref>.<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
<br />
Sites are identified by a slug of the form <code>[-_.A-Za-z0-9]+</code>.<br />
<br />
Orange's hosting has gone through a number of rebrandings and transitions, and as such URL structure is somewhat messy.<br />
<br />
* <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>monsite-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
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* <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>pagesperso-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
<br />
* <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 403 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
<br />
Some assets are at <code>monsite.woopic.com</code> or <code>*.cdn.woopic.com</code>.<br />
<br />
== Archival ==<br />
<br />
Sites were discovered using IA CDX search and [http://annuaire-pp.orange.fr/ Orange's directory].<br />
<br />
Initial [[ArchiveBot]] jobs were not able to complete in time and were superseded by a [[DPoS]] project to circumvent rate limits. Bans took the form of connection timeouts, were approximately 24 hours long, and appeared to be triggered by high request rates for 4xx pages on non-CDN domains; once received they applied to all main and CDN domains.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Pages_Perso_Orange&diff=50910Pages Perso Orange2023-09-29T00:06:59Z<p>Switchnode: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| URL = https://pages.perso.orange.fr/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/pagespersoorange/ pagespersoorange]<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/pagespersoorange-grab pagespersoorange-grab]<br />
| irc = webroasting<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Pages Perso Orange''' is the [[ISP Hosting]] service of French provider Orange. It was originally to shut down on {{datetime|2023-09-05}} but got extended to {{datetime|2023-10-05}}.<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
<br />
Sites are identified by a slug of the form <code>[-_.A-Za-z0-9]+</code>.<br />
<br />
Orange's hosting has gone through a number of rebrandings and transitions, and as such URL structure is somewhat messy.<br />
<br />
* <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>monsite-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.monsite-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.monsite.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>monsite.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects <code><slug>.monsite.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
<br />
* <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code>pagesperso-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagesperso-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>perso.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.perso.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.perso.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>perso.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
<br />
* <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is live. It is HTTP-only if the slug contains <code>.</code>; otherwise it redirects to HTTPS. The same site may once have been available at:<br />
** <code><slug>.assoc.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.ecole.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.mairie.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code> is identical to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code>.<br />
** <code>pagespro-orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr/<path></code>.<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> is a landing page with a link to <code><slug>.pagespro-orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code>pros.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 301-redirects to <code><slug>.pros.orange.fr</code> (HTTP only).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.orange.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug></code> 302-redirects to a 404 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code>pro.orange.fr/<slug>/<path></code> 302-redirects to a 403 page (HTTPS always).<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr</code> is dead.<br />
** <code><slug>.pro.wanadoo.fr/<path></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug></code> is dead.<br />
** <code>pro.wanadoo.fr/<slug>/<path></code> is dead.<br />
<br />
Some assets are at <code>monsite.woopic.com</code> or <code>*.cdn.woopic.com</code>.<br />
<br />
== Archival ==<br />
<br />
Sites were discovered using IA CDX search and [http://annuaire-pp.orange.fr/ Orange's directory].<br />
<br />
Initial [[ArchiveBot]] jobs were not able to complete in time and were superseded by a [[DPoS]] project to circumvent rate limits. Bans took the form of connection timeouts, were approximately 24 hours long, and appeared to be triggered by high request rates for 4xx pages on non-CDN domains; once received they applied to all main and CDN domains.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=PIXNET&diff=50624PIXNET2023-08-30T00:51:15Z<p>Switchnode: /* User */ unfortunately, user ids don't appear to be sequential</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = PIXNET<br />
| logo = <br />
| image = <br />
| URL = https://www.pixnet.net/<br />
| project_status = {{endangered}}&nbsp;<small>(inactive accounts)</small><br />
| archiving_status = {{notsavedyet}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''PIXNET 痞客邦''' is the largest blogging service in Taiwan, founded in 2003.<br />
<br />
PIXNET has accepted many blogs that migrated from [[Wretch]], [[Yahoo! Blog]], yam天空部落 and [[Xuite]] during their closure.<br />
<br />
On {{#formatdate:2023-08-28}}, PIXNET announced that it will delete inactive accounts (no login activity after {{#formatdate:2020-01-01}}) and all related data on {{#formatdate:2023-12-01}}. <ref>{{url|https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232|<nowiki>[公告]長期未登入使用帳戶停用暨帳號內檔案刪除作業 @ 部落格 :: 痞客邦 ::</nowiki>}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
<br />
=== User ===<br />
<br />
Each user has a custom, non-editable '''user_name''' in the regex form of <code>[a-z][0-9a-z]{3,15}</code> and one corresponding nonsequential numeric '''id'''.<br />
<br />
* Profile card (名片): https://www.pixnet.net/pcard/admin<br />
* Friend list: https://admin.pixnet.net/friend/list<br />
<br />
=== Blog ===<br />
<br />
Unlike [[Wretch]] or [[Xuite]], each user can only create one blog and use <nowiki>https://{user_name}.pixnet.net/blog</nowiki> as the URL for that blog.<br />
<br />
However, users can purchase to use their own domain name. <ref>[https://help.pixnet.tw/faq/555 如何將我的部落格掛上個人網址? - PIXNET 客服中心]</ref><ref>[https://appmarket.pixnet.tw/#!/addon/216 App Market 應用市集 :: 痞客邦]</ref> For example, https://anrine910070.pixnet.net/blog 301 redirects to http://bobby.tw/blog , but the latter one still resolves to PIXNET.<br />
<br />
* Blog: https://admin.pixnet.net/blog<br />
** Article: https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232 https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/49016232-%5b公告%5d長期未登入使用帳戶停用暨帳號檔案刪<br />
<br />
=== Album ===<br />
<br />
Photos or videos can be put into '''album sets''' (相簿).<br />
<br />
Each album set is either listed directly under the album list, or belongs to exactly one '''album folder''' (相簿資料夾) under the album list.<br />
<br />
* Album homepage: https://emmademo.pixnet.net/album<br />
* Album list: https://emmademo.pixnet.net/album/list<br />
** Album folder: https://emmademo.pixnet.net/album/folder/34262<br />
*** Album set: https://emmademo.pixnet.net/album/set/34258<br />
**** Video: https://emmademo.pixnet.net/album/video/18061666<br />
***** https://ssl-pixnet-tv.pixfs.net/user/emmademo/13250440292193_6.mp4<br />
** Album set: https://admin.pixnet.net/album/set/14597740<br />
*** Photo: https://admin.pixnet.net/album/photo/121920684<br />
**** https://pic.pimg.tw/admin/1336367797-3680534477.gif<br />
**** https://admin.pixnet.net/album/downloadphoto?id=121920684<br />
<br />
Each '''event''' (共同相簿集) is owner by one user and other users can join as members. Every member can add their own album set to the event.<br />
<br />
* Event list: https://standinghere.pixnet.net/album/events<br />
** Event: https://standinghere.pixnet.net/album/event/2690<br />
*** Album set: https://cindy.pixnet.net/album/set/16361206?list=event/2690<br />
<br />
=== Guestbook ===<br />
<br />
The traditional guestbook (留言板) service was deprecated on {{#formatdate:2016-01-14}}. <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20151227223156/https://admin.pixnet.net/blog/post/43145044 <nowiki>[公告] 留言板將於 2016 年 1 月 4 日轉換為應用市集「留言板」APP 服務 @ 痞客邦 PIXNET 站方部落格 :: 痞客邦 PIXNET ::</nowiki>]</ref> The official successor is https://appmarket.pixnet.tw/#!/addon/379 .<br />
<br />
=== 邦邦 ===<br />
<br />
邦邦 (https://streamtopic.pixnet.net/) is a discussion board service, similar to [[Facebook]] Groups. Each topic is owned by one or more moderators (邦主).<br />
<br />
* Topic: https://streamtopic.pixnet.net/828/posts https://streamtopic.pixnet.net/828/highlight<br />
** Post: https://streamtopic.pixnet.net/828/posts/13558<br />
<br />
=== API ===<br />
<br />
PIXNET's API is well-documented at https://developer.pixnet.pro/, but it is heavily rate limited (600 requests/hour with <code>access_token</code>, 200 requests/hour without authentication)<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
<br />
* {{wikipedia|Pixnet}}<br />
<br />
{{Navigation box}}</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ZOWA&diff=50611ZOWA2023-08-28T21:09:30Z<p>Switchnode: add irc channel</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = ZOWA<br />
| logo = ZOWA-logo.png<br />
| image = Zowa-screenshot.png<br />
| URL = https://zowa.app/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{upcoming}}<br />
| archiving_type = <br />
| source = <br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = zowch<br />
| data = <br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''ZOWA''' is a Japanese ASMR video sharing and discussion board service, established in 2018. Uploads will no longer be accepted from {{#formatdate:2023-07-31}}, and the service will be closed on {{#formatdate:2023-09-29}} at 12:00pm (UTC+9).<br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
<br />
The website is made of Vue.js, and there are also iOS<ref>{{url|1=https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/zowa/id1437486224|2=「ZOWA」をApp Storeで}}</ref> and Android<ref>{{url|1=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.eisys.zowa.jp.co.eisys.zowa|2=ZOWA - Google Play のアプリ}}</ref> apps.<br />
<br />
=== ASMR video hosting ===<br />
<br />
* ASMRtist (User): https://zowa.app/rtist/1<br />
* ASMR video: https://zowa.app/play/11<br />
* Playlist: https://zowa.app/feature/7<br />
* Tag: https://zowa.app/search/result?tag=4<br />
<br />
=== Original audios works ===<br />
<br />
* Public series list: https://fun.zowa.app/titles/<br />
* Series: https://fun.zowa.app/titles/lilyquartet<br />
* Work: https://zowa.app/audios/5<br />
<br />
=== Zch (Discussion board) ===<br />
<br />
* Thread: https://zowa.app/zch/threads/1<br />
* Text-to-speech comments: https://zowa.app/videos/870<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
{{Navigation box}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Video hosting]]<br />
[[Category:Japanese]]</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior&diff=50583ArchiveTeam Warrior2023-08-24T22:53:54Z<p>Switchnode: /* How can I run tons of Warriors easily? */ fix anchor link</p>
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<div>{{notice|1=The current versions of the Warrior Docker image and the Warrior virtual machine image should now be compatible with most projects; however some projects may still not be compatible and show a blank screen when attempting to run them. As an alternative, you can [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|run individual projects manually using Docker]].<br />
<br />
If you have any issues or feedback, see the [[Archiveteam:IRC|AT #warrior IRC channel on hackint]].}}<br />
<!-- IS THIS STILL THE CASE? --><br />
<br />
== What is the Archive Team Warrior? ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive—and it’s really easy to do!<br />
<br />
The warrior is a container running inside a virtual machine, so there is almost no security risk to your computer. ("Almost", because in practice nothing is 100% secure.) The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space, as well as some of your CPU and memory. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
<br />
== Basic usage (virtual machine) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
(To run the container without a virtual machine, see [[#Advanced usage (container only)|Advanced usage]].)<br />
<br />
You'll need:<br />
* The Warrior Appliance (size: 123MB, current version: 3.2), from one of the following locations:<br />
** [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior/releases GitHub]<br />
** [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Archive Team]<br />
** [https://archive.org/details/GvzE7rkPGw0053gK Internet Archive]<br />
** [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ Syping Development (DE)]<br />
* A virtualization application to run it, such as:<br />
** [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended, open source) <br />
** [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player] (may have some compatibility issues, free-gratis for personal use)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VirtualBox ===<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox.<br />
# In VirtualBox, click <code>File > Import Appliance</code> and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE video demonstrating these steps] is available. (Note that the screen indicating that the Warrior has finished loading looks different than the one from when this video was made, but the steps are otherwise the same.)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VMware Player ===<br />
<br />
Note that VMware Player may have some compatibility issues with running the Warrior image.<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VMware Player.<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{TOClimit|3}}<br />
<br />
== Warrior architecture and alternatives ==<br />
[[File:Archiveteam_warrior_infrastructure.png|thumb|right|256px|[[Dev/Infrastructure|DPoS infrastructure]]]]<br />
<br />
A running Warrior has three layers, like an onion's. In order, from inside out:<br />
<ol><br />
<li>The '''grab scripts''' do the actual work of a [[DPoS|Distributed Preservation of Service]] project: requesting tasks from the tracker, downloading the relevant data, reporting back, and uploading the results.</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior container''' automatically downloads grab scripts and their dependencies, isolates them while they're running, provides a web interface for choosing and configuring projects, and allows the user to select a 'default' project ("ArchiveTeam's Choice").</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior VM''' automatically keeps the Warrior container up to date, provides a graphical interface for using the Warrior container, and provides additional isolation.<br />
</ol><br />
<br />
Any grab script—whether it's running on bare metal, in a container, or on the full Warrior VM stack—can serve as a DPoS ''worker''. The outer layers are for convenience, reliability, and safety, and so may be omitted or substituted when appropriate. In reverse order, from outside in:<br />
<ol><br />
<li value=3>Running the '''Warrior VM''' is recommended for most people, as it's the easiest to use and requires minimal supervision.</li><br />
<li value=2>Running the '''Warrior container''' is best for confident command-line users who prefer to eschew the additional overhead of a VM. Instructions can be found in [[#Advanced usage (container only)|the next section]].<br />
* Another alternative is to run a '''project container'''. Like the Warrior container, this manages and isolates grab scripts, but unlike the Warrior container, it is specific to a single project and does not provide a web interface (further reducing overhead). This is best for people deploying large numbers of machines who are prepared to manually intervene when projects begin and end. Instructions can be found at [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]].<br />
</li><br />
<li value=1>Running the '''grab scripts''' (''without'' a container) was common in the past, but is no longer supported due to the complexity of dependency management without containerization.</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
(You may sometimes see DPoS projects referred to as 'Warrior projects', or all DPoS workers as 'warriors'. This is for [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html hysterical raisins] and we apologize for any confusion.)<br />
<br />
== Advanced usage (container only) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Docker ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ Docker] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Docker.<br />
# Open your terminal. On Windows, you can use either Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell. On macOS and Linux you can use Terminal (Bash).<br />
# Use the following command to download and start Watchtower, which will automatically keep your Warrior updated: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name watchtower --restart=on-failure --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --include-restarting --cleanup --interval 3600</pre> (For a full explanation of this command, see items 3 and 4 [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker#Instructions_for_using_Docker_CLI_on_Windows.2C_macOS.2C_or_Linux|here]].)<br />
# Use the following command to download and start the Warrior: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name archiveteam-warrior --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --log-driver json-file --log-opt max-size=50m --restart=on-failure --publish 8001:8001 atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
You may wish to specify configuration (username, selected project, and item concurrency) in [[/Docker environment variables]] to ensure persistence across Warrior updates, and/or to protect the web configuration interface for your Warrior by setting a username and password for the web interface and by adding a rule to your firewall (such as [https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker#solving-ufw-and-docker-issues ufw]).<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Podman ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://podman.io/docs/installation Podman] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Podman.<br />
# Open your terminal.<br />
# Use the following command to download and create the Warrior: <pre>$ podman create --name archiveteam-warrior --label=io.containers.autoupdate=registry --publish 8001:8001 --volume archiveteam-warrior-projects:/home/warrior/projects atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Use the following commands to start the Warrior and automatically keep it updated: <pre>$ mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user&#10;$ podman generate systemd --new archiveteam-warrior >~/.config/systemd/user/archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user daemon-reload&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now podman-auto-update.timer</pre><br />
<br />
Configuration is automatically persistent. However, many systems don't leave user processes running after logout by default, which causes the podman containers to stop when you log out; this can be mitigated by enabling ''lingering'' with <code>sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER</code>.<br />
<br />
== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
<br />
=== Why a virtual machine/container in the first place? ===<br />
<br />
The Warrior is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
<br />
* Graphical interface (virtual machine only)<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
* Can be configured to restart automatically after a system restart ([[#How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically?|see below]]).<br />
<br />
If you have suggestions for improving this system, [[#I_still_have_a_question.21|talk to us]].<br />
<br />
=== Can I use whatever internet access for the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages or otherwise scan/filter/change content. The practice is less common nowadays as most sites use [[wikipedia:HTTPS|SSL]] which complicates injection. Doesn't stop ''some'' parties from trying anyway.<ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates/|Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates }}</ref><br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No major censorship. If you believe your country implements major censorship, do not run a warrior. Examples are [[wikipedia:Internet censorship in China|China]] and [[wikipedia:Censorship in Turkey#Internet censorship|Turkey]]. What content may or may not be accessible is unpredictable in these countries, and requests may return a page that says "this website is blocked" which is unhelpful to archive. "Minor" censorship is far more common: where a small number of sites are blocked, the blocks are widely announced and blocks are not frequently implemented. For example, several countries have blocked [[wikipedia:The Pirate Bay|The Pirate Bay]] and a ruling from the European Commission requires European providers to block access to [[wikipedia:RT (TV network)|RT]] and [[wikipedia:Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]]. Another example of "minor" censorship is when access is blocked to sites you wouldn't want to archive in a million years, like those dedicated to hosting imagery of child abuse. While censorship is always a bad idea (and abusive sites should be shut down, not blocked), "minor" censorship ''typically'' won't (..or shouldn't) affect Warrior as the blocks are predictable. Obviously you won't be able to contribute to archiving sites that are blocked for you. When in any doubt, ask on IRC first.<br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe/public transport/store wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful. In addition, you may slow down the service for the people around you.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged. Servers may also be more likely to deploy a rate limit or serve a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] page when using a VPN which is unhelpful to archive.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public unshared IP addresses if possible. If a single IP attempts to back up an entire site, it may result in that IP getting banned by the server. Also, if a server ''does'' ban an IP, we'd rather this ban only affects you and not everyone in your apartment building.<br />
<br />
=== I turned my Warrior off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
If you've killed your Warrior, then the work it was doing has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them.<br />
<br />
=== I closed my browser or tab with the Warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the Warrior. As long as the VM or Docker container is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
<br />
=== How can I shut down the Warrior without losing work? ===<br />
<br />
==== Recommended method ====<br />
<br />
Click the "Shut down" button on the left of the web interface. All the current tasks will still finish, but no new ones will be started. When a banner appears saying "There is no connection with the warrior", the Warrior has finished shutting down. (If you would rather use the command line than the web interface, [[#How_can_I_run_the_Warrior_headlessly_.28without_leaving_a_window_open.29.3F|see below]]).<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait (perhaps because a task is long-running), you can use VirtualBox's <code>Machine > Pause</code> or VMware's <code>VM > Pause</code> to suspend the Warrior VM, then resume it when you are ready to work again. Note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the tracker will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it—but suspending in order to reboot your computer or reset your internet connection should be perfectly fine.<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait, you're out of luck; Docker does not have a feature for suspending containers. <br />
<br />
=== How much disk space will the Warrior use? ===<br />
<br />
Short answer: it depends on the project. The virtual machine has a hard limit of 60GB disk usage, but the Docker container does not have such a limit. However, it is highly unlikely that any project would use more than 60GB of disk space at any time.<br />
<br />
Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB, but Docker has no hard limit. Any unused virtual machine or Docker container disk space is not used on the host computer. You may configure the virtual machine to run on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
<br />
=== How can I log into the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. <br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, press ALT+F4 to switch to virtual console number 4. VirtualBox users may need to press the host key, RIGHT_CONTROL, to enter capture mode before pressing ALT+F4. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for the warrior. Switching to a new virtual console will show a login shell. You can login using the username <code>root</code> and the password <code>archiveteam</code>.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, open your terminal and run <code>sudo docker exec -t -i archiveteam-warrior /bin/bash</code>. Replace 'archiveteam-warrior' with the name of your Warrior container if necessary.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run multiple Warriors at the same time? ===<br />
<br />
This usually isn't necessary; if you want to increase your work on a project, you can increase the number of items your Warrior will work on at the same time. In the web interface, go to the "Your settings" tab, tick the "Show advanced settings" box, and edit the "Concurrent items" field. The maximum concurrency is 6.<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machines ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
<br />
In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up <code>Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Port Forwarding</code>. You need to adjust the host port. For example, setting your table to <code>TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001</code> will map port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
<br />
VMware installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter</code>) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
<br />
Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
<br />
==== Docker containers ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the run command used to create the containers.<br />
<br />
First, each container needs a unique name, so you will need to replace the name specified with the <code>--name</code> parameter with something unique.<br />
<br />
Second, you will need to specify a unique port to access the web interface of each container. You can do this by changing the number before the <code>:</code> in the <code>--publish</code> parameter to any available unique port number equal to or greater than 1024. (Additional options for specifying ports are explained in the [https://docs.docker.com/network/links/#connect-using-network-port-mapping Docker documentation].)<br />
<br />
You may also want to reuse your configuration between different Docker containers; you can do this by specifying the same [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#using-environment-variables environment variables] or bindmounting the same <code>config.json</code> file across all of your containers. See the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#readme Warrior Dockerfile README] for more details about this.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the Warrior headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
From the VirtualBox GUI, after opening the VM, click <code>Machine > Detach GUI</code>. You can then close the VirtualBox Manager window.<br />
<br />
For the VirtualBox CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>VBoxManage startvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --type headless</code> and shut it down with <code>VBoxManage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 acpipowerbutton</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
<br />
For the VMware CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</code> and shut it down with <code>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM; resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
The container does not have a GUI, and if run with <code>--detach</code> (as the instructions suggest), it will not occupy your terminal window either. It is therefore headless by default. You can start up the container with <code>docker start archiveteam-warrior</code> and shut it down with <code>docker kill --signal=SIGINT archiveteam-warrior</code>.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can set the VM up as a system service by following the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If the container is run with <code>--restart=on-failure</code> (as the instructions suggest), Docker will automatically start it on boot.<br />
<br />
Additionally, you'll want to specify a project, e.g. <code>-e SELECTED_PROJECT=auto</code> and likely a nickname, e.g. <code>-e DOWNLOADER=MyCoolNickname</code>. See [[/Docker environment variables]] for more info.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --nic1 bridged<br />
$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMware installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I access the virtual machine from another device on my network? ===<br />
<br />
Full guide for VirtualBox users is found [https://gist.github.com/HeliosLHC/cf3264c8d65b4680474ac13bcc6d0384 here].<br />
<br />
=== What's new in version 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine? ===<br />
<br />
This update enables running newer projects, shortens startup times, enables viewing basic logs from the virtual machine console (press ALT+F2 for Warrior logs, press ALT+F3 for automatic updater logs, and press ALT+F1 to return to the splash screen), and has other minor improvements. Warriors versions 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update themselves with the project compatibility improvements, but the other improvements require re-creating the VM with version 3.2 of the appliance.<br />
<br />
=== Are previous versions of the Warrior still supported? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
Currently, versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine are functional and supported, and are capable of automatically retrieving updated components as needed. Support for version 2 and prior of the Warrior virtual machine was discontinued around 2018 due to outdated SSL support.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
We always recommend using the latest version of the Warrior Docker image, as new and updated projects often require the updated components provided by newer Docker images. If you run the Docker container with Watchtower (as the instructions suggest), your Docker container will automatically be kept up-to-date.<br />
<br />
=== Can I run the Warrior on ARM or some other unusual architecture? ===<br />
No, currently we do not allow ARM (used on Raspberry Pi and M1 Macs) or other non-x86 architectures. This is because we have previously discovered questionable practices in the Wget archive-creating components and are not confident it runs under different endiannesses etc. If you still want to run it apparently [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker|Docker]] can emulate x86_64.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of Warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current Archive Team project leads what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
<br />
Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
<br />
Archive Team volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavor of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
<br />
Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
<br />
The instructions for [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_Warriors_at_the_same_time.3F|running multiple Warriors on one machine]] may be helpful. However, you should also consider [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]] rather than the Warrior; these have even less overhead and can be configured with greater concurrency.<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What do the different counters mean? ===<br />
<br />
<code>claims</code> is the number of items that have been claimed by workers but not yet returned. <code>done</code> is the number of items returned. The four <code>todo</code> counters are for the queues from which workers claim items, in order: <code>todo</code>, the main queue; <code>todo:backfeed</code>, typically items discovered by workers processing other items; <code>todo:secondary</code>, typically items of lower priority; and <code>todo:redo</code>, typically items that have been claimed but took too long to be returned. (Some projects give the queues different meanings.)<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
<br />
That's just the Warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the Warrior.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
<br />
The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
<br />
=== That’s awesome—can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
<br />
=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
<br />
In order to ensure data accuracy, it is imperative that users contributing to Archive Team projects '''do not modify the project scripts'''. If you would like to propose improvements to be included in future official versions of/updates to project scripts or would like to use our code for non-Archive Team projects, check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
<br />
=== I still have a question! ===<br />
<br />
Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/archiveteam-bs #archiveteam-bs] for general questions.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
<br />
=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
<br />
If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
<br />
You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
<br />
You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
<br />
To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
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<br />
This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
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=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
Make sure you invoked <code>docker run</code> with the option <code>--publish</code>. To access the web interface at http://localhost:X/, you must use <code>--publish X:8001</code>.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
<br />
This may manifest as the following error:<br />
<br />
<code><br />
Checking Internet<br />
wget: bad address 'warriorhq.archiveteam.org'<br />
Unable to access the Internet<br />
</code><br />
<br />
It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
<br />
If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
<br />
Another option is to switch to "Host bridge" under settings of the network adapter. If you do this, you won't be able to connect to 127.0.0.1, instead use the first IP in the list below (without the /32, with :8001 at the end).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
<br />
This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
<br />
* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
<br />
(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
<br />
If you like, you can switch to another [[Current_Projects#Warrior-based_projects|project]] with less load.<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the Warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work. This error can also occur if the project is paused, though that isn't as common.<br />
<br />
=== I'm running a project manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
<br />
If you are running the scripts using Docker, we recommend using Watchtower to check for updates every hour, downloading and installing them when necessary. See the setup instructions in [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]] for more details.<br />
<br />
If you are not running the scripts using the provided Docker images, try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
<br />
=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
<br />
If those messages are saying <code>max connections reached -- try again later</code>, then everything is fine and the file will be uploaded eventually.<br />
<br />
If the above error persists for hours (for the same item), or if the error message says something else, then something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
<br />
=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
<br />
The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
<br />
This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
<br />
For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
<br />
On VMware (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter > Advanced</code>. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
You're out of luck; Docker has no feature for limiting bandwidth.<br />
<br />
=== The Warrior virtual machine is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
<br />
Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
<br />
* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the VirtualBox CLI to compact the disk. First, shut down the VM. Then, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the hard-disk VDI file is stored. Finally, run <code>VBoxManage modifymedium --compact archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code>, replacing <code>archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code> with the name of the VDI file in use by the Warrior VM. See the [https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifymedium VirtualBox documentation] for more details and additional steps to help achieve a better result.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
<br />
This issue should not affect Docker containers.<br />
<br />
=== My Warrior crashed, or I had to hard-stop it, and I don't think there's time to retry the tasks. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the project [[Archiveteam:IRC|IRC]] channel, including for stops due to system failures and power outages as well as hard-kills. Do not attempt to start or restart the affected containers. If time is indeed a concern, we can help you save or recover partial data from your Warrior.<br />
<br />
(The same applies if your Warrior is still running, but tasks are now stuck—especially if they're stuck because the project has reached its deadline and the target site is now gone. Most projects should handle this gracefully, but contact us if they do not.)<br />
<br />
=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the Warrior.<br />
<br />
=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the Warrior yet? ===<br />
<br />
Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
<br />
=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
<br />
We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
<br />
=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
<br />
Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
<br />
We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
<br />
=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
<br />
If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
<br />
== Are you a coder? ==<br />
<br />
Like the Warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
<br />
{{Navigation box}}</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Skyblog&diff=50424Skyblog2023-08-06T03:08:50Z<p>Switchnode: project is go</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| logo = skyrock_logo.jpg<br />
| title = Skyblog<br />
| image = Skyblog-screenshot.png<br />
| URL = [https://www.skyrock.com/blog/ Blogs - Skyrock.com]<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/skyblog-grab skyblog-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/skyblog/ skyblog]<br />
| irc = bowlofpetunias<br />
}}<br />
<br />
Skyblog is a French blogging platform/social network hosted by the French radio station Skyrock. It announced on 16 June 2023<ref name="announcement">{{url|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709138-ICI-T-LIBRE.html}}</ref> that 'to comply with legislation on personal data' it would shut down on 21 August 2023<ref>{{url|https://static.skyrock.net/img/skyblog_eol.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://the-skyrock-team.skyrock.com/3356796874-posted-on-2023-06-22.html}}</ref>.<br />
<br />
Anonymized data will supposedly be saved by the INA (French radio and television archive) and BNF (national library of France).<ref name="announcement" /> No provisions were made for exporting user data except some instructions on using general 'website downloading' software.<ref>{{url|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709252-Comment-sauvegarder-ton-blog.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
<br />
Blog IDs appear to be sequential, with a maximum of ~124M. Blogs can be enumerated at endpoints such as <code><nowiki>https://www.skyrock.com/common/r/skynautes/card/<user-id></nowiki></code>, which resolves to <code>https://<username>.skyrock.com/profil/</code>. Each subdomain provides a <code>sitemap.xml</code> and <code>atom.xml</code>.<br />
<br />
Individual posts are found at <code>https://<username>.skyrock.com/<post-id>-<post-slug>.html</code>. Post IDs appear to be sequential and globally unique. Post slugs are not required; an incorrect or absent slug will redirect to the canonical URL as long as the blog name is correct.<br />
<br />
There is a URL shortener at <nowiki>http://sk.mu/</nowiki>. Its slugs for posts consist of the letter <code>a</code> followed by a base62-converted integer <code><user-id> × 10<sup>11</sup> + <post-id></code>, which is impractical to brute-force. For example:<br />
* a post with post ID 3356709138 published by a blog with blog ID 33265738 would have a slug <code>"a" + base62_convert("3326573803356709138")</code> → http://sk.mu/a3XJK5i0uTK2.<br />
* a post with post ID 15 published by a blog with blog ID 132030 would have a slug <code>"a" + base62_convert("13203000000000015")</code> → http://sk.mu/aYt8dzQD03.<br />
<br />
There is [https://www.skyrock.com/developer/documentation/api/ an API].<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<br />
<references/></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior&diff=50357ArchiveTeam Warrior2023-08-03T20:54:36Z<p>Switchnode: /* Warrior architecture and alternatives */ warrior container doesn't actually use project containers lol</p>
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<div>{{notice|1=The current versions of the Warrior Docker image and the Warrior virtual machine image should now be compatible with most projects; however some projects may still not be compatible and show a blank screen when attempting to run them. As an alternative, you can [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|run individual projects manually using Docker]].<br />
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If you have any issues or feedback, see the [[Archiveteam:IRC|AT #warrior IRC channel on hackint]].}}<br />
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<br />
== What is the Archive Team Warrior? ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive—and it’s really easy to do!<br />
<br />
The warrior is a container running inside a virtual machine, so there is almost no security risk to your computer. ("Almost", because in practice nothing is 100% secure.) The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space, as well as some of your CPU and memory. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
<br />
== Basic usage (virtual machine) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
(To run the container without a virtual machine, see [[#Advanced usage (container only)|Advanced usage]].)<br />
<br />
You'll need:<br />
* The Warrior Appliance (size: 123MB, current version: 3.2), from one of the following locations:<br />
** [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior/releases GitHub]<br />
** [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Archive Team]<br />
** [https://archive.org/details/GvzE7rkPGw0053gK Internet Archive]<br />
** [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ Syping Development (DE)]<br />
* A virtualization application to run it, such as:<br />
** [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended, open source) <br />
** [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player] (may have some compatibility issues, free-gratis for personal use)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VirtualBox ===<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox.<br />
# In VirtualBox, click <code>File > Import Appliance</code> and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE video demonstrating these steps] is available. (Note that the screen indicating that the Warrior has finished loading looks different than the one from when this video was made, but the steps are otherwise the same.)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VMware Player ===<br />
<br />
Note that VMware Player may have some compatibility issues with running the Warrior image.<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VMware Player.<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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<br />
== Warrior architecture and alternatives ==<br />
[[File:Archiveteam_warrior_infrastructure.png|thumb|right|256px|[[Dev/Infrastructure|DPoS infrastructure]]]]<br />
<br />
A running Warrior has three layers, like an onion's. In order, from inside out:<br />
<ol><br />
<li>The '''grab scripts''' do the actual work of a [[DPoS|Distributed Preservation of Service]] project: requesting tasks from the tracker, downloading the relevant data, reporting back, and uploading the results.</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior container''' automatically downloads grab scripts and their dependencies, isolates them while they're running, provides a web interface for choosing and configuring projects, and allows the user to select a 'default' project ("ArchiveTeam's Choice").</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior VM''' automatically keeps the Warrior container up to date, provides a graphical interface for using the Warrior container, and provides additional isolation.<br />
</ol><br />
<br />
Any grab script—whether it's running on bare metal, in a container, or on the full Warrior VM stack—can serve as a DPoS ''worker''. The outer layers are for convenience, reliability, and safety, and so may be omitted or substituted when appropriate. In reverse order, from outside in:<br />
<ol><br />
<li value=3>Running the '''Warrior VM''' is recommended for most people, as it's the easiest to use and requires minimal supervision.</li><br />
<li value=2>Running the '''Warrior container''' is best for confident command-line users who prefer to eschew the additional overhead of a VM. Instructions can be found in [[#Advanced usage (container only)|the next section]].<br />
* Another alternative is to run a '''project container'''. Like the Warrior container, this manages and isolates grab scripts, but unlike the Warrior container, it is specific to a single project and does not provide a web interface (further reducing overhead). This is best for people deploying large numbers of machines who are prepared to manually intervene when projects begin and end. Instructions can be found at [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]].<br />
</li><br />
<li value=1>Running the '''grab scripts''' (''without'' a container) was common in the past, but is no longer recommended due to the complexity of dependency management without containerization. Still, it may be useful when running without root. Instructions can be found in the README of each project's source repository.</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
(You may sometimes see DPoS projects referred to as 'Warrior projects', or all DPoS workers as 'warriors'. This is for [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html hysterical raisins] and we apologize for any confusion.)<br />
<br />
== Advanced usage (container only) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Docker ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ Docker] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Docker.<br />
# Open your terminal. On Windows, you can use either Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell. On macOS and Linux you can use Terminal (Bash).<br />
# Use the following command to download and start Watchtower, which will automatically keep your Warrior updated: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name watchtower --restart=on-failure --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --interval 3600</pre> (For a full explanation of this command, see items 3 and 4 [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker#Instructions_for_using_Docker_CLI_on_Windows.2C_macOS.2C_or_Linux|here]].)<br />
# Use the following command to download and start the Warrior: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name archiveteam-warrior --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=on-failure --publish 8001:8001 atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
You may wish to specify configuration (username, selected project, and item concurrency) in [[/Docker environment variables]] to ensure persistence across Warrior updates, and/or to protect the web configuration interface for your Warrior by setting a username and password for the web interface and by adding a rule to your firewall (such as [https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker#solving-ufw-and-docker-issues ufw]).<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Podman ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://podman.io/docs/installation Podman] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Podman.<br />
# Open your terminal.<br />
# Use the following command to download and create the Warrior: <pre>$ podman create --name archiveteam-warrior --label=io.containers.autoupdate=registry --publish 8001:8001 --volume archiveteam-warrior-projects:/home/warrior/projects atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Use the following commands to start the Warrior and automatically keep it updated: <pre>$ mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user&#10;$ podman generate systemd --new archiveteam-warrior >~/.config/systemd/user/archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user daemon-reload&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now podman-auto-update.timer</pre><br />
<br />
Configuration is automatically persistent. However, many systems don't leave user processes running after logout by default, which causes the podman containers to stop when you log out; this can be mitigated by enabling ''lingering'' with <code>sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER</code>.<br />
<br />
== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
<br />
=== Why a virtual machine/container in the first place? ===<br />
<br />
The Warrior is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
<br />
* Graphical interface (virtual machine only)<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
* Can be configured to restart automatically after a system restart ([[#How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically?|see below]]).<br />
<br />
If you have suggestions for improving this system, [[#I_still_have_a_question.21|talk to us]].<br />
<br />
=== Can I use whatever internet access for the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
<br />
* Use a DNS server that issues correct responses. Pinging a nonexistent domain should never return any IP, it should return NXDOMAIN. As an example, before 2014 OpenDNS redirected requests for nonexistent domains to a search page with ads. This is not clean. Another example of an "unclean" DNS is [[wikipedia:CleanBrowsing|CleanBrowsing]] which aims to shield its users from fap material. The DNS should preferably not attempt to filter anything, not even phishing domains. 9.9.9.10 from [[wikipedia:Quad9|Quad9]] may be a good public DNS. 8.8.8.8 from Google should be unfiltered as well.<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages or otherwise scan/filter/change content. The practice is less common nowadays as most sites use [[wikipedia:HTTPS|SSL]] which complicates injection. Doesn't stop ''some'' parties from trying anyway.<ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates/|Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates }}</ref><br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No major censorship. If you believe your country implements major censorship, do not run a warrior. Examples are [[wikipedia:Internet censorship in China|China]] and [[wikipedia:Censorship in Turkey#Internet censorship|Turkey]]. What content may or may not be accessible is unpredictable in these countries, and requests may return a page that says "this website is blocked" which is unhelpful to archive. "Minor" censorship is far more common: where a small number of sites are blocked, the blocks are widely announced and blocks are not frequently implemented. For example, several countries have blocked [[wikipedia:The Pirate Bay|The Pirate Bay]] and a ruling from the European Commission requires European providers to block access to [[wikipedia:RT (TV network)|RT]] and [[wikipedia:Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]]. Another example of "minor" censorship is when access is blocked to sites you wouldn't want to archive in a million years, like those dedicated to hosting imagery of child abuse. While censorship is always a bad idea (and abusive sites should be shut down, not blocked), "minor" censorship ''typically'' won't (..or shouldn't) affect Warrior as the blocks are predictable. Obviously you won't be able to contribute to archiving sites that are blocked for you. When in any doubt, ask on IRC first.<br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe/public transport/store wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful. In addition, you may slow down the service for the people around you.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged. Servers may also be more likely to deploy a rate limit or serve a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] page when using a VPN which is unhelpful to archive.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public unshared IP addresses if possible. If a single IP attempts to back up an entire site, it may result in that IP getting banned by the server. Also, if a server ''does'' ban an IP, we'd rather this ban only affects you and not everyone in your apartment building.<br />
<br />
=== I turned my Warrior off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
If you've killed your Warrior, then the work it was doing has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them.<br />
<br />
=== I closed my browser or tab with the Warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the Warrior. As long as the VM or Docker container is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
<br />
=== How can I shut down the Warrior without losing work? ===<br />
<br />
==== Recommended method ====<br />
<br />
Click the "Shut down" button on the left of the web interface. All the current tasks will still finish, but no new ones will be started. When a banner appears saying "There is no connection with the warrior", the Warrior has finished shutting down. (If you would rather use the command line than the web interface, [[#How_can_I_run_the_Warrior_headlessly_.28without_leaving_a_window_open.29.3F|see below]]).<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait (perhaps because a task is long-running), you can use VirtualBox's <code>Machine > Pause</code> or VMware's <code>VM > Pause</code> to suspend the Warrior VM, then resume it when you are ready to work again. Note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the tracker will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it—but suspending in order to reboot your computer or reset your internet connection should be perfectly fine.<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait, you're out of luck; Docker does not have a feature for suspending containers. <br />
<br />
=== How much disk space will the Warrior use? ===<br />
<br />
Short answer: it depends on the project. The virtual machine has a hard limit of 60GB disk usage, but the Docker container does not have such a limit. However, it is highly unlikely that any project would use more than 60GB of disk space at any time.<br />
<br />
Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB, but Docker has no hard limit. Any unused virtual machine or Docker container disk space is not used on the host computer. You may configure the virtual machine to run on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
<br />
=== How can I log into the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. <br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, press ALT+F4 to switch to virtual console number 4. VirtualBox users may need to press the host key, RIGHT_CONTROL, to enter capture mode before pressing ALT+F4. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for the warrior. Switching to a new virtual console will show a login shell. You can login using the username <code>root</code> and the password <code>archiveteam</code>.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, open your terminal and run <code>sudo docker exec -t -i archiveteam-warrior /bin/bash</code>. Replace 'archiveteam-warrior' with the name of your Warrior container if necessary.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run multiple Warriors at the same time? ===<br />
<br />
This usually isn't necessary; if you want to increase your work on a project, you can increase the number of items your Warrior will work on at the same time. In the web interface, go to the "Your settings" tab, tick the "Show advanced settings" box, and edit the "Concurrent items" field. The maximum concurrency is 6.<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machines ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
<br />
In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up <code>Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Port Forwarding</code>. You need to adjust the host port. For example, setting your table to <code>TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001</code> will map port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
<br />
VMware installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter</code>) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
<br />
Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
<br />
==== Docker containers ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the run command used to create the containers.<br />
<br />
First, each container needs a unique name, so you will need to replace the name specified with the <code>--name</code> parameter with something unique.<br />
<br />
Second, you will need to specify a unique port to access the web interface of each container. You can do this by changing the number before the <code>:</code> in the <code>--publish</code> parameter to any available unique port number equal to or greater than 1024. (Additional options for specifying ports are explained in the [https://docs.docker.com/network/links/#connect-using-network-port-mapping Docker documentation].)<br />
<br />
You may also want to reuse your configuration between different Docker containers; you can do this by specifying the same [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#using-environment-variables environment variables] or bindmounting the same <code>config.json</code> file across all of your containers. See the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#readme Warrior Dockerfile README] for more details about this.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the Warrior headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
From the VirtualBox GUI, after opening the VM, click <code>Machine > Detach GUI</code>. You can then close the VirtualBox Manager window.<br />
<br />
For the VirtualBox CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>VBoxManage startvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --type headless</code> and shut it down with <code>VBoxManage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 acpipowerbutton</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
<br />
For the VMware CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</code> and shut it down with <code>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM; resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
The container does not have a GUI, and if run with <code>--detach</code> (as the instructions suggest), it will not occupy your terminal window either. It is therefore headless by default. You can start up the container with <code>docker start archiveteam-warrior</code> and shut it down with <code>docker kill --signal=SIGINT archiveteam-warrior</code>.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can set the VM up as a system service by following the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If the container is run with <code>--restart=on-failure</code> (as the instructions suggest), Docker will automatically start it on boot.<br />
<br />
Additionally, you'll want to specify a project, e.g. <code>-e SELECTED_PROJECT=auto</code> and likely a nickname, e.g. <code>-e DOWNLOADER=MyCoolNickname</code>. See [[/Docker environment variables]] for more info.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --nic1 bridged<br />
$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMware installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I access the virtual machine from another device on my network? ===<br />
<br />
Full guide for VirtualBox users is found [https://gist.github.com/HeliosLHC/cf3264c8d65b4680474ac13bcc6d0384 here].<br />
<br />
=== What's new in version 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine? ===<br />
<br />
This update enables running newer projects, shortens startup times, enables viewing basic logs from the virtual machine console (press ALT+F2 for Warrior logs, press ALT+F3 for automatic updater logs, and press ALT+F1 to return to the splash screen), and has other minor improvements. Warriors versions 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update themselves with the project compatibility improvements, but the other improvements require re-creating the VM with version 3.2 of the appliance.<br />
<br />
=== Are previous versions of the Warrior still supported? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
Currently, versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine are functional and supported, and are capable of automatically retrieving updated components as needed. Support for version 2 and prior of the Warrior virtual machine was discontinued around 2018 due to outdated SSL support.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
We always recommend using the latest version of the Warrior Docker image, as new and updated projects often require the updated components provided by newer Docker images. If you run the Docker container with Watchtower (as the instructions suggest), your Docker container will automatically be kept up-to-date.<br />
<br />
=== Can I run the Warrior on ARM or some other unusual architecture? ===<br />
No, currently we do not allow ARM (used on Raspberry Pi and M1 Macs) or other non-x86 architectures. This is because we have previously discovered questionable practices in the Wget archive-creating components and are not confident it runs under different endiannesses etc. If you still want to run it apparently [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker|Docker]] can emulate x86_64.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of Warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current Archive Team project leads what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
<br />
Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
<br />
Archive Team volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavor of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
<br />
Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
<br />
The instructions for [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines.2FDocker_containers_at_the_same_time.3F|running multiple Warriors on one machine]] may be helpful. However, you should also consider [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]] rather than the Warrior; these have even less overhead and can be configured with greater concurrency.<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What do the different counters mean? ===<br />
<br />
<code>claims</code> is the number of items that have been claimed by workers but not yet returned. <code>done</code> is the number of items returned. The four <code>todo</code> counters are for the queues from which workers claim items, in order: <code>todo</code>, the main queue; <code>todo:backfeed</code>, typically items discovered by workers processing other items; <code>todo:secondary</code>, typically items of lower priority; and <code>todo:redo</code>, typically items that have been claimed but took too long to be returned. (Some projects give the queues different meanings.)<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
<br />
That's just the Warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the Warrior.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
<br />
The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
<br />
=== That’s awesome—can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
<br />
=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
<br />
In order to ensure data accuracy, it is imperative that users contributing to Archive Team projects '''do not modify the project scripts'''. If you would like to propose improvements to be included in future official versions of/updates to project scripts or would like to use our code for non-Archive Team projects, check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
<br />
=== I still have a question! ===<br />
<br />
Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/archiveteam-bs #archiveteam-bs] for general questions.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
<br />
=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
<br />
If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
<br />
You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
<br />
You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
<br />
To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
<br />
<!--=== I just imported the ova image and the warrior is stuck on "Preparing the data partition". ===<br />
<br />
This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
--><br />
=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
Make sure you invoked <code>docker run</code> with the option <code>--publish</code>. To access the web interface at http://localhost:X/, you must use <code>--publish X:8001</code>.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
<br />
This may manifest as the following error:<br />
<br />
<code><br />
Checking Internet<br />
wget: bad address 'warriorhq.archiveteam.org'<br />
Unable to access the Internet<br />
</code><br />
<br />
It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
<br />
If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
<br />
Another option is to switch to "Host bridge" under settings of the network adapter. If you do this, you won't be able to connect to 127.0.0.1, instead use the first IP in the list below (without the /32, with :8001 at the end).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
<br />
This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
<br />
* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
<br />
(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
<br />
If you like, you can switch to another [[Current_Projects#Warrior-based_projects|project]] with less load.<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the Warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work. This error can also occur if the project is paused, though that isn't as common.<br />
<br />
=== I'm running a project manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
<br />
If you are running the scripts using Docker, we recommend using Watchtower to check for updates every hour, downloading and installing them when necessary. See the setup instructions in [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]] for more details.<br />
<br />
If you are not running the scripts using the provided Docker images, try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
<br />
=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
<br />
If those messages are saying <code>max connections reached -- try again later</code>, then everything is fine and the file will be uploaded eventually.<br />
<br />
If the above error persists for hours (for the same item), or if the error message says something else, then something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
<br />
=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
<br />
The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
<br />
This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
<br />
For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
<br />
On VMware (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter > Advanced</code>. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
You're out of luck; Docker has no feature for limiting bandwidth.<br />
<br />
=== The Warrior virtual machine is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
<br />
Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
<br />
* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the VirtualBox CLI to compact the disk. First, shut down the VM. Then, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the hard-disk VDI file is stored. Finally, run <code>VBoxManage modifymedium --compact archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code>, replacing <code>archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code> with the name of the VDI file in use by the Warrior VM. See the [https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifymedium VirtualBox documentation] for more details and additional steps to help achieve a better result.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
<br />
This issue should not affect Docker containers.<br />
<br />
=== My Warrior crashed, or I had to hard-stop it, and I don't think there's time to retry the tasks. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the project [[Archiveteam:IRC|IRC]] channel, including for stops due to system failures and power outages as well as hard-kills. Do not attempt to start or restart the affected containers. If time is indeed a concern, we can help you save or recover partial data from your Warrior.<br />
<br />
(The same applies if your Warrior is still running, but tasks are now stuck—especially if they're stuck because the project has reached its deadline and the target site is now gone. Most projects should handle this gracefully, but contact us if they do not.)<br />
<br />
=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the Warrior.<br />
<br />
=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the Warrior yet? ===<br />
<br />
Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
<br />
=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
<br />
We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
<br />
=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
<br />
Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
<br />
We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
<br />
=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
<br />
If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
<br />
== Are you a coder? ==<br />
<br />
Like the Warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
<br />
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<div>{{notice|1=The current versions of the Warrior Docker image and the Warrior virtual machine image should now be compatible with most projects; however some projects may still not be compatible and show a blank screen when attempting to run them. As an alternative, you can [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|run individual projects manually using Docker]].<br />
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If you have any issues or feedback, see the [[Archiveteam:IRC|AT #warrior IRC channel on hackint]].}}<br />
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<br />
== What is the Archive Team Warrior? ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive—and it’s really easy to do!<br />
<br />
The warrior is a container running inside a virtual machine, so there is almost no security risk to your computer. ("Almost", because in practice nothing is 100% secure.) The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space, as well as some of your CPU and memory. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
<br />
== Basic usage (virtual machine) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
(To run the container without a virtual machine, see [[#Advanced usage (container only)|Advanced usage]].)<br />
<br />
You'll need:<br />
* The Warrior Appliance (size: 123MB, current version: 3.2), from one of the following locations:<br />
** [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior/releases GitHub]<br />
** [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Archive Team]<br />
** [https://archive.org/details/GvzE7rkPGw0053gK Internet Archive]<br />
** [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ Syping Development (DE)]<br />
* A virtualization application to run it, such as:<br />
** [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended, open source) <br />
** [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player] (may have some compatibility issues, free-gratis for personal use)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VirtualBox ===<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox.<br />
# In VirtualBox, click <code>File > Import Appliance</code> and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE video demonstrating these steps] is available. (Note that the screen indicating that the Warrior has finished loading looks different than the one from when this video was made, but the steps are otherwise the same.)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with VMware Player ===<br />
<br />
Note that VMware Player may have some compatibility issues with running the Warrior image.<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VMware Player.<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
{{TOClimit|3}}<br />
<br />
== Warrior architecture and alternatives ==<br />
[[File:Archiveteam_warrior_infrastructure.png|thumb|right|256px|[[Dev/Infrastructure|DPoS infrastructure]]]]<br />
<br />
A running Warrior has four layers, like an onion's. In order, from inside out:<br />
<ol><br />
<li>The '''grab scripts''' do the actual work of a [[DPoS|Distributed Preservation of Service]] project: requesting tasks from the tracker, downloading the relevant data, reporting back, and uploading the results.</li><br />
<li>The '''project containers''' automatically download grab scripts and their dependencies, and isolate them while they're running.</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior container''' automatically keeps the project containers up to date, provides a web interface for choosing and configuring projects, and allows the user to select a 'default' project ("ArchiveTeam's Choice").</li><br />
<li>The '''Warrior VM''' automatically keeps the Warrior container up to date, provides a graphical interface for using the Warrior container, and provides additional isolation.<br />
</ol><br />
<br />
Any grab script—whether it's running on bare metal, in a project container, in a project container within the Warrior container, or on the full Warrior VM stack—can serve as a DPoS ''worker''. The three outer layers are for reliability, convenience, and safety, and so may be omitted when appropriate. In reverse order, from outside in:<br />
<ol><br />
<li value=4>Running the '''Warrior VM''' is recommended for most people, as it's the easiest to use and requires minimal supervision.</li><br />
<li value=3>Running the '''Warrior container''' is best for confident command-line users who prefer to eschew the additional overhead of a VM. Instructions can be found in [[#Advanced usage (container only)|the next section]].</li><br />
<li value=2>Running the '''project containers''' (''without'' a Warrior) is best for people deploying large numbers of machines who are prepared to manually intervene when projects begin and end. Instructions can be found at [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]].</li><br />
<li value=1>Running the '''grab scripts''' (''without'' a Warrior) was common in the past, but is no longer recommended due to the complexity of dependency management without containerization. Still, it may be useful when running without root. Instructions can be found in the README of each project's source repository.</li><br />
</ol><br />
<br />
(You may sometimes see DPoS projects referred to as 'Warrior projects', or all DPoS workers as 'warriors'. This is for [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hysterical-reasons.html hysterical raisins] and we apologize for any confusion.)<br />
<br />
== Advanced usage (container only) ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Docker ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ Docker] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Docker.<br />
# Open your terminal. On Windows, you can use either Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell. On macOS and Linux you can use Terminal (Bash).<br />
# Use the following command to download and start Watchtower, which will automatically keep your Warrior updated: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name watchtower --restart=on-failure --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --interval 3600</pre> (For a full explanation of this command, see items 3 and 4 [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker#Instructions_for_using_Docker_CLI_on_Windows.2C_macOS.2C_or_Linux|here]].)<br />
# Use the following command to download and start the Warrior: <pre>$ docker run --detach --name archiveteam-warrior --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=on-failure --publish 8001:8001 atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
You may wish to specify configuration (username, selected project, and item concurrency) in [[/Docker environment variables]] to ensure persistence across Warrior updates, and/or to protect the web configuration interface for your Warrior by setting a username and password for the web interface and by adding a rule to your firewall (such as [https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker#solving-ufw-and-docker-issues ufw]).<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Podman ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://podman.io/docs/installation Podman] (open source).<br />
<br />
# Download and install Podman.<br />
# Open your terminal.<br />
# Use the following command to download and create the Warrior: <pre>$ podman create --name archiveteam-warrior --label=io.containers.autoupdate=registry --publish 8001:8001 --volume archiveteam-warrior-projects:/home/warrior/projects atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
# Use the following commands to start the Warrior and automatically keep it updated: <pre>$ mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user&#10;$ podman generate systemd --new archiveteam-warrior >~/.config/systemd/user/archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user daemon-reload&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now archiveteam-warrior.service&#10;$ systemctl --user enable --now podman-auto-update.timer</pre><br />
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Configuration is automatically persistent. However, many systems don't leave user processes running after logout by default, which causes the podman containers to stop when you log out; this can be mitigated by enabling ''lingering'' with <code>sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER</code>.<br />
<br />
== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
<br />
=== Why a virtual machine/container in the first place? ===<br />
<br />
The Warrior is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
<br />
* Graphical interface (virtual machine only)<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
* Can be configured to restart automatically after a system restart ([[#How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically?|see below]]).<br />
<br />
If you have suggestions for improving this system, [[#I_still_have_a_question.21|talk to us]].<br />
<br />
=== Can I use whatever internet access for the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
<br />
* Use a DNS server that issues correct responses. Pinging a nonexistent domain should never return any IP, it should return NXDOMAIN. As an example, before 2014 OpenDNS redirected requests for nonexistent domains to a search page with ads. This is not clean. Another example of an "unclean" DNS is [[wikipedia:CleanBrowsing|CleanBrowsing]] which aims to shield its users from fap material. The DNS should preferably not attempt to filter anything, not even phishing domains. 9.9.9.10 from [[wikipedia:Quad9|Quad9]] may be a good public DNS. 8.8.8.8 from Google should be unfiltered as well.<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages or otherwise scan/filter/change content. The practice is less common nowadays as most sites use [[wikipedia:HTTPS|SSL]] which complicates injection. Doesn't stop ''some'' parties from trying anyway.<ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates/|Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates }}</ref><br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No major censorship. If you believe your country implements major censorship, do not run a warrior. Examples are [[wikipedia:Internet censorship in China|China]] and [[wikipedia:Censorship in Turkey#Internet censorship|Turkey]]. What content may or may not be accessible is unpredictable in these countries, and requests may return a page that says "this website is blocked" which is unhelpful to archive. "Minor" censorship is far more common: where a small number of sites are blocked, the blocks are widely announced and blocks are not frequently implemented. For example, several countries have blocked [[wikipedia:The Pirate Bay|The Pirate Bay]] and a ruling from the European Commission requires European providers to block access to [[wikipedia:RT (TV network)|RT]] and [[wikipedia:Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]]. Another example of "minor" censorship is when access is blocked to sites you wouldn't want to archive in a million years, like those dedicated to hosting imagery of child abuse. While censorship is always a bad idea (and abusive sites should be shut down, not blocked), "minor" censorship ''typically'' won't (..or shouldn't) affect Warrior as the blocks are predictable. Obviously you won't be able to contribute to archiving sites that are blocked for you. When in any doubt, ask on IRC first.<br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe/public transport/store wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful. In addition, you may slow down the service for the people around you.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged. Servers may also be more likely to deploy a rate limit or serve a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] page when using a VPN which is unhelpful to archive.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public unshared IP addresses if possible. If a single IP attempts to back up an entire site, it may result in that IP getting banned by the server. Also, if a server ''does'' ban an IP, we'd rather this ban only affects you and not everyone in your apartment building.<br />
<br />
=== I turned my Warrior off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
If you've killed your Warrior, then the work it was doing has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them.<br />
<br />
=== I closed my browser or tab with the Warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the Warrior. As long as the VM or Docker container is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
<br />
=== How can I shut down the Warrior without losing work? ===<br />
<br />
==== Recommended method ====<br />
<br />
Click the "Shut down" button on the left of the web interface. All the current tasks will still finish, but no new ones will be started. When a banner appears saying "There is no connection with the warrior", the Warrior has finished shutting down. (If you would rather use the command line than the web interface, [[#How_can_I_run_the_Warrior_headlessly_.28without_leaving_a_window_open.29.3F|see below]]).<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait (perhaps because a task is long-running), you can use VirtualBox's <code>Machine > Pause</code> or VMware's <code>VM > Pause</code> to suspend the Warrior VM, then resume it when you are ready to work again. Note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the tracker will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it—but suspending in order to reboot your computer or reset your internet connection should be perfectly fine.<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait, you're out of luck; Docker does not have a feature for suspending containers. <br />
<br />
=== How much disk space will the Warrior use? ===<br />
<br />
Short answer: it depends on the project. The virtual machine has a hard limit of 60GB disk usage, but the Docker container does not have such a limit. However, it is highly unlikely that any project would use more than 60GB of disk space at any time.<br />
<br />
Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB, but Docker has no hard limit. Any unused virtual machine or Docker container disk space is not used on the host computer. You may configure the virtual machine to run on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
<br />
=== How can I log into the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. <br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, press ALT+F4 to switch to virtual console number 4. VirtualBox users may need to press the host key, RIGHT_CONTROL, to enter capture mode before pressing ALT+F4. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for the warrior. Switching to a new virtual console will show a login shell. You can login using the username <code>root</code> and the password <code>archiveteam</code>.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, open your terminal and run <code>sudo docker exec -t -i archiveteam-warrior /bin/bash</code>. Replace 'archiveteam-warrior' with the name of your Warrior container if necessary.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run multiple Warriors at the same time? ===<br />
<br />
This usually isn't necessary; if you want to increase your work on a project, you can increase the number of items your Warrior will work on at the same time. In the web interface, go to the "Your settings" tab, tick the "Show advanced settings" box, and edit the "Concurrent items" field. The maximum concurrency is 6.<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machines ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
<br />
In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up <code>Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Port Forwarding</code>. You need to adjust the host port. For example, setting your table to <code>TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001</code> will map port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
<br />
VMware installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter</code>) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
<br />
Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
<br />
==== Docker containers ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the run command used to create the containers.<br />
<br />
First, each container needs a unique name, so you will need to replace the name specified with the <code>--name</code> parameter with something unique.<br />
<br />
Second, you will need to specify a unique port to access the web interface of each container. You can do this by changing the number before the <code>:</code> in the <code>--publish</code> parameter to any available unique port number equal to or greater than 1024. (Additional options for specifying ports are explained in the [https://docs.docker.com/network/links/#connect-using-network-port-mapping Docker documentation].)<br />
<br />
You may also want to reuse your configuration between different Docker containers; you can do this by specifying the same [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#using-environment-variables environment variables] or bindmounting the same <code>config.json</code> file across all of your containers. See the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#readme Warrior Dockerfile README] for more details about this.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the Warrior headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
From the VirtualBox GUI, after opening the VM, click <code>Machine > Detach GUI</code>. You can then close the VirtualBox Manager window.<br />
<br />
For the VirtualBox CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>VBoxManage startvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --type headless</code> and shut it down with <code>VBoxManage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 acpipowerbutton</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
<br />
For the VMware CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</code> and shut it down with <code>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM; resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
The container does not have a GUI, and if run with <code>--detach</code> (as the instructions suggest), it will not occupy your terminal window either. It is therefore headless by default. You can start up the container with <code>docker start archiveteam-warrior</code> and shut it down with <code>docker kill --signal=SIGINT archiveteam-warrior</code>.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can set the VM up as a system service by following the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If the container is run with <code>--restart=on-failure</code> (as the instructions suggest), Docker will automatically start it on boot.<br />
<br />
Additionally, you'll want to specify a project, e.g. <code>-e SELECTED_PROJECT=auto</code> and likely a nickname, e.g. <code>-e DOWNLOADER=MyCoolNickname</code>. See [[/Docker environment variables]] for more info.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --nic1 bridged<br />
$ VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMware installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I access the virtual machine from another device on my network? ===<br />
<br />
Full guide for VirtualBox users is found [https://gist.github.com/HeliosLHC/cf3264c8d65b4680474ac13bcc6d0384 here].<br />
<br />
=== What's new in version 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine? ===<br />
<br />
This update enables running newer projects, shortens startup times, enables viewing basic logs from the virtual machine console (press ALT+F2 for Warrior logs, press ALT+F3 for automatic updater logs, and press ALT+F1 to return to the splash screen), and has other minor improvements. Warriors versions 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update themselves with the project compatibility improvements, but the other improvements require re-creating the VM with version 3.2 of the appliance.<br />
<br />
=== Are previous versions of the Warrior still supported? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
Currently, versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine are functional and supported, and are capable of automatically retrieving updated components as needed. Support for version 2 and prior of the Warrior virtual machine was discontinued around 2018 due to outdated SSL support.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
We always recommend using the latest version of the Warrior Docker image, as new and updated projects often require the updated components provided by newer Docker images. If you run the Docker container with Watchtower (as the instructions suggest), your Docker container will automatically be kept up-to-date.<br />
<br />
=== Can I run the Warrior on ARM or some other unusual architecture? ===<br />
No, currently we do not allow ARM (used on Raspberry Pi and M1 Macs) or other non-x86 architectures. This is because we have previously discovered questionable practices in the Wget archive-creating components and are not confident it runs under different endiannesses etc. If you still want to run it apparently [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker|Docker]] can emulate x86_64.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of Warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current Archive Team project leads what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
<br />
Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
<br />
Archive Team volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavor of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
<br />
Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
<br />
The instructions for [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines.2FDocker_containers_at_the_same_time.3F|running multiple Warriors on one machine]] may be helpful. However, you should also consider [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]] rather than the Warrior; these have even less overhead and can be configured with greater concurrency.<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What do the different counters mean? ===<br />
<br />
<code>claims</code> is the number of items that have been claimed by workers but not yet returned. <code>done</code> is the number of items returned. The four <code>todo</code> counters are for the queues from which workers claim items, in order: <code>todo</code>, the main queue; <code>todo:backfeed</code>, typically items discovered by workers processing other items; <code>todo:secondary</code>, typically items of lower priority; and <code>todo:redo</code>, typically items that have been claimed but took too long to be returned. (Some projects give the queues different meanings.)<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
<br />
That's just the Warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the Warrior.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
<br />
The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
<br />
=== That’s awesome—can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
<br />
=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
<br />
In order to ensure data accuracy, it is imperative that users contributing to Archive Team projects '''do not modify the project scripts'''. If you would like to propose improvements to be included in future official versions of/updates to project scripts or would like to use our code for non-Archive Team projects, check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
<br />
=== I still have a question! ===<br />
<br />
Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/archiveteam-bs #archiveteam-bs] for general questions.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
<br />
=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
<br />
If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
<br />
You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
<br />
You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
<br />
To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
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This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
--><br />
=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
Make sure you invoked <code>docker run</code> with the option <code>--publish</code>. To access the web interface at http://localhost:X/, you must use <code>--publish X:8001</code>.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
<br />
This may manifest as the following error:<br />
<br />
<code><br />
Checking Internet<br />
wget: bad address 'warriorhq.archiveteam.org'<br />
Unable to access the Internet<br />
</code><br />
<br />
It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
<br />
If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
<br />
Another option is to switch to "Host bridge" under settings of the network adapter. If you do this, you won't be able to connect to 127.0.0.1, instead use the first IP in the list below (without the /32, with :8001 at the end).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
<br />
This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
<br />
* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
<br />
(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
<br />
If you like, you can switch to another [[Current_Projects#Warrior-based_projects|project]] with less load.<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the Warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work. This error can also occur if the project is paused, though that isn't as common.<br />
<br />
=== I'm running a project manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
<br />
If you are running the scripts using Docker, we recommend using Watchtower to check for updates every hour, downloading and installing them when necessary. See the setup instructions in [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]] for more details.<br />
<br />
If you are not running the scripts using the provided Docker images, try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
<br />
=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
<br />
If those messages are saying <code>max connections reached -- try again later</code>, then everything is fine and the file will be uploaded eventually.<br />
<br />
If the above error persists for hours (for the same item), or if the error message says something else, then something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
<br />
=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
<br />
The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
<br />
This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
<br />
For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
<br />
On VMware (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter > Advanced</code>. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
You're out of luck; Docker has no feature for limiting bandwidth.<br />
<br />
=== The Warrior virtual machine is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
<br />
Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
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* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the VirtualBox CLI to compact the disk. First, shut down the VM. Then, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the hard-disk VDI file is stored. Finally, run <code>VBoxManage modifymedium --compact archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code>, replacing <code>archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code> with the name of the VDI file in use by the Warrior VM. See the [https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifymedium VirtualBox documentation] for more details and additional steps to help achieve a better result.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
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This issue should not affect Docker containers.<br />
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=== My Warrior crashed, or I had to hard-stop it, and I don't think there's time to retry the tasks. ===<br />
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Please notify us in the project [[Archiveteam:IRC|IRC]] channel, including for stops due to system failures and power outages as well as hard-kills. Do not attempt to start or restart the affected containers. If time is indeed a concern, we can help you save or recover partial data from your Warrior.<br />
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(The same applies if your Warrior is still running, but tasks are now stuck—especially if they're stuck because the project has reached its deadline and the target site is now gone. Most projects should handle this gracefully, but contact us if they do not.)<br />
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=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
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Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the Warrior.<br />
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=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the Warrior yet? ===<br />
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Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
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=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
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We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
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=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
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Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
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We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
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=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
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If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
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== Projects ==<br />
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See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
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== Are you a coder? ==<br />
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Like the Warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 1st: {{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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
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===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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| URL = http://telegram.org<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-grab telegram-grab], [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-items telegram-items]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/telegram telegram]<br />
| irc = telegrab<br />
| data = {{IA id|archiveteam_telegram}}<br />
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'''Telegram''' is a mostly open source chat system (web and app-based) which acts as a social network due to features like group chats and channels, originally intended as a drop-in replacement for [[WhatsApp]].<br />
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Like [[Facebook]] pages/groups and [[Twitter]], Telegram chats can contain a significant amount of history (text, audio/video and images) of various online communities, as well as personal digital history.<br />
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== Structure ==<br />
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Channels on Telegram are essentially public streams of posts, similar to Twitter or RSS.<br />
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Since 2019-06-01 ([https://telegram.org/blog/privacy-discussions-web-bots update blog post]), it is possible to "preview" channels on the web (e.g. @Telegram at [https://telegram.me/s/Telegram] or [https://t.me/s/Telegram]).<br />
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== Export methods ==<br />
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=== Web data only ===<br />
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These tools archive Telegram channels through their web view. Only public channels can be saved this way, and certain attachments (including PDFs and some very long videos) are not available.<br />
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ArchiveTeam's [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-grab telegram project] archives as WARC, supporting all available web data (and including outlinks). Suggestions are welcome! A bot in the project IRC channel accepts archival requests for eventual upload into the Wayback Machine; it understands the following commands:<br />
* <code>!help</code> prints a help message listing available commands.<br />
* <code>!a</code> archives Telegram data once.<br />
** <code>!a <url></code> archives the given telegram.me or t.me url (autodetecting the page type).<br />
** <code>!a channel:<channel name></code> archives the given channel.<br />
** <code>!a post:<channel name>:<post id></code> archives the given post, including any discussions.<br />
* <code>!p</code> archives a Telegram channel once immediately, then queues it for periodic re-archiving. (This is preferred for active, significant channels.)<br />
**<code>!p <channel> <interval> <time-to-live></code> archives the given channel (as <code><url></code> or <code>channel:<name></code>) once every <code>interval</code> seconds for the next <code>time-to-live</code> seconds (optional, default 1 year).<br />
* <code>!pget</code>, <code>!prenew</code>, or <code>!pdelete</code> <code><channel></code> gets info for, renews, or deletes a periodic item, respectively.<br />
* <code>!pdump</code> dumps info for all periodic items.<br />
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[https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape snscrape] exports textual channel data as JSONL (media support is pending).<br />
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==== Deprecated ====<br />
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* [[Chromebot]] was once used, but has been shut down due to data integrity issues. (Old jobs can be found via [[ArchiveBot/Telegram_channels|this wiki]].)<br />
* [[ArchiveBot]] was once used, but due to its lack of Javascript support, its results are inferior to those of the special-purpose Telegram project. Use the Telegram bot instead. (Old jobs can be found via [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/telegram.me the] [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/t.me viewer].)<br />
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=== All data ===<br />
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* The official Telegram Desktop app exports as HTML or JSON.<br />
* [https://github.com/expectocode/telegram-export telegram-export] (no longer maintained)<br />
* [https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump#usage telegram-history-dump] (no longer maintained); [https://www.haykranen.nl/2014/12/02/howto-backup-your-telegram-chats/ introduction]<br />
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/443pav/qa_exporting_telegram_messages_search_no_help/czu4n05 Pidgin sync]<br />
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See also [https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2022/03/08/how-to-archive-telegram-content-to-document-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/ Bellingcat's guide].<br />
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== Notable channels ==<br />
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See also [https://pad.notkiska.pw/p/telegram-channel-lists this etherpad] of third-party channel lists.<br />
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==== Telegram official ====<br />
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* https://t.me/s/Telegram<br />
* https://t.me/s/durov<br />
* https://t.me/s/durov_russia<br />
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==== Hong Kong pro-democracy movement / [[wikipedia:2019–2020 Hong Kong protests|2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]] ====<br />
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* https://t.me/s/hktgb<br />
* https://t.me/s/reminder612<br />
* https://t.me/s/scottscout<br />
* https://t.me/s/antiextraditionverifiednews<br />
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==== [[wikipedia:QAnon|QAnon]] ====<br />
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[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/qanon-telegram-channels-increase-1117869/] [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qanon-conspiracy-power-vacuum-telegram-ghostezra-adl/]<br />
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* ?<br />
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==== [[wikipedia:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] ====<br />
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* ?<br />
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==== Other ====<br />
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* [https://t.me/s/nexta_live NEXTA Live] - Belarus independent news<br />
* ?<br />
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* [[ArchiveBot/Telegram]] (some sites related to Telegram)<br />
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| title = Telegram<br />
| logo = Telegram-icon.png<br />
| image = Telegram - 7-3-22.png<br />
| URL = http://telegram.org<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-grab telegram-grab], [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-items telegram-items]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/telegram telegram]<br />
| irc = telegrab<br />
| data = {{IA id|archiveteam_telegram}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Telegram''' is a mostly open source chat system (web and app-based) which acts as a social network due to features like group chats and channels, originally intended as a drop-in replacement for [[WhatsApp]].<br />
<br />
Like [[Facebook]] pages/groups and [[Twitter]], Telegram chats can contain a significant amount of history (text, audio/video and images) of various online communities, as well as personal digital history.<br />
<br />
== Structure ==<br />
<br />
Channels on Telegram are essentially public streams of posts, similar to Twitter or RSS.<br />
<br />
Since 2019-06-01 ([https://telegram.org/blog/privacy-discussions-web-bots update blog post]), it is possible to "preview" channels on the web (e.g. @Telegram at [https://telegram.me/s/Telegram] or [https://t.me/s/Telegram]).<br />
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== Export methods ==<br />
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=== Web data only ===<br />
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These tools archive Telegram channels through their web view. Only public channels can be saved this way, and certain attachments (including PDFs and some very long videos) are not available.<br />
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ArchiveTeam's [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/telegram-grab telegram project] archives as WARC, supporting all available web data (and including outlinks). Suggestions are welcome! A bot in the project IRC channel accepts archival requests for eventual upload into the Wayback Machine; it understands the following commands:<br />
* <code>!help</code> prints a help message listing available commands.<br />
* <code>!a</code> archives Telegram data once.<br />
** <code>!a <url></code> archives the given telegram.me or t.me url (autodetecting the page type).<br />
** <code>!a channel:<channel name></code> archives the given channel.<br />
** <code>!a post:<channel name>:<post id></code> archives the given post, including any discussions.<br />
* <code>!p</code> archives a Telegram channel once immediately, then queues it for periodic re-archiving. (This is preferred for active, significant channels.)<br />
**<code>!p <channel> <interval> <time-to-live></code> archives the given channel (as <code><url></code> or <code>channel:<name></code>) once every <code>interval</code> seconds for the next <code>time-to-live</code> seconds (optional, default 1 year).<br />
* <code>!pget</code>, <code>!prenew</code>, or <code>!pdelete</code> <code><channel></code> gets info for, renews, or deletes a periodic item, respectively.<br />
* <code>!pdump</code> dumps info for all periodic items.<br />
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[https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape snscrape] exports textual channel data as JSONL (media support is pending).<br />
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==== Deprecated ====<br />
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* [[Chromebot]] was once used, but has been shut down due to data integrity issues. (Old jobs can be found via [[ArchiveBot/Telegram_channels|this wiki]].)<br />
* [[ArchiveBot]] was once used, but due to its lack of Javascript support, its results are inferior to those of the special-purpose Telegram project. Use the Telegram bot instead. (Old jobs can be found via [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/telegram.me the] [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/domain/t.me viewer].)<br />
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=== All data ===<br />
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* The official Telegram Desktop app exports as HTML or JSON.<br />
* [https://github.com/expectocode/telegram-export telegram-export] (no longer maintained)<br />
* [https://github.com/tvdstaaij/telegram-history-dump#usage telegram-history-dump] (no longer maintained); [https://www.haykranen.nl/2014/12/02/howto-backup-your-telegram-chats/ introduction]<br />
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/Telegram/comments/443pav/qa_exporting_telegram_messages_search_no_help/czu4n05 Pidgin sync]<br />
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See also [https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2022/03/08/how-to-archive-telegram-content-to-document-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/ Bellingcat's guide].<br />
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== Notable channels ==<br />
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* [https://t.me/s/nexta_live NEXTA Live] - Belarus independent news<br />
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==== Telegram official ====<br />
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* https://t.me/s/Telegram<br />
* https://t.me/s/durov<br />
* https://t.me/s/durov_russia<br />
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==== Hong Kong pro-democracy movement / [[wikipedia:2019–2020 Hong Kong protests|2019–2020 Hong Kong protests]] ====<br />
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* https://t.me/s/hktgb<br />
* https://t.me/s/reminder612<br />
* https://t.me/s/scottscout<br />
* https://t.me/s/antiextraditionverifiednews<br />
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==== [[wikipedia:QAnon|QAnon]] ====<br />
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[https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/qanon-telegram-channels-increase-1117869/] [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/qanon-conspiracy-power-vacuum-telegram-ghostezra-adl/]<br />
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* ?<br />
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==== [[wikipedia:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]] ====<br />
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* ?<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[ArchiveBot/Telegram]] (some sites related to Telegram)<br />
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[[Category:Social networks]]</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Switchnode&diff=50273User:Switchnode2023-07-20T20:29:17Z<p>Switchnode: non-dumb workaround</p>
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<div>= Gee, those bot channels sure are noisy! =<br />
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If you'd like them to be quieter and you use Weechat, try these. (Don't forget to save!)<br />
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== [[ArchiveBot|#archivebot]] ==<br />
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<nowiki>#</nowiki>archivebot shouldn't be considered a reliable chat channel. But...<br />
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Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
* <code>/trigger add tag_highlights line "" "${highlight} == 1" "/$/highlight,/tags"</code> (tags highlights)<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_bots irc.hackint.#archivebot nick_Aramaki+!highlight,nick_socialbot+!highlight *</code><br />
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Hide bot commands other than <code>archive</code>, <code>archiveonly</code>, and <code>snscrape</code>, except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^!([^a]|abort)</code><br />
''Or,'' hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^(!|socialbot)</code><br />
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== [[Telegram|#telegrab]] ==<br />
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Hide bot responses other than the 'scanning' message and the final item count:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_h2ibot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot !(^h2ibot:|: No public index)</code><br />
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Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
: (This is complicated because it needs to be stateful, due to the way h2ibot 'talks to itself'. It may fumble if you and others are submitting jobs at the same time, but this is rare, self-limiting, and easily elucidated with <code>/filter toggle telegrab_bot</code>.)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_on line "1003|*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;self_msg" "${message} =~ ^!a" "" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 1"</code> (starts listening)<br />
* <code><nowiki>/trigger add telegrab_bot_off line "1001|*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "(${highlight} && (${message} =~ : Invalid command message.$)) || (${message} =~ h2ibot: Deduplicated and queued [[:digit:]]+ items.)" "" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 0"</nowiki></code> (stops listening)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_tag line "1002|*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "${plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on}" "/$/listen,/tags"</nowiki></code> (tags listened messages)<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_bot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot+!listen *</code><br />
Hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_commands irc.hackint.#telegrab !self_msg ^!</code></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=50253Deathwatch2023-07-17T21:12:32Z<p>Switchnode: /* 2024 */ fix chronological sorting</p>
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 1st: {{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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
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===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
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* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/|motor-talk.de}}, a German car forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.motor-talk.de/blogs/motor-talk/die-zukunft-von-motor-talk-t7495710.html}}</ref><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 1st: {{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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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 says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
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=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>[[File:Librarianmotoko.jpg|200px|right|thumb|Imagine Motoko Kusanagi as an archivist.]]<br />
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'''ArchiveBot''' is an [[IRC | <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr>]] bot designed to automate the archival of smaller websites (e.g. up to a few hundred thousand URLs). You give it a URL to start at, and it grabs all content under that URL, records it in a [[WARC | <abbr title="Web ARCive">WARC</abbr>]] file, and then uploads that WARC to ArchiveTeam servers for eventual injection into the [https://archive.org/details/archivebot Internet Archive]'s Wayback Machine (or other archive sites).<br />
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== Details ==<br />
To use ArchiveBot, drop by the IRC channel {{IRC|archivebot}}. To interact with ArchiveBot, you issue [https://archivebot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands.html '''commands'''] by typing them into the channel. Note that you will need channel operator (<code>@</code>) or voice (<code>+</code>) permissions in order to issue archiving jobs; please ask for assistance or leave a message describing the website you want to archive.<br />
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The [http://archivebot.com/3 '''ArchiveBot dashboard'''] publicly shows the sites being currently downloaded. The [http://archivebot.com/pipelines pipeline monitor station] shows the status of deployed instances of crawlers. The [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/ viewer] assists in browsing and searching archives.<br />
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== Components ==<br />
IRC interface<br />
:The bot listens for commands in the IRC channel and then reports back status on the IRC channel. You can ask it to archive a whole website or single webpage, check whether the URL has been saved, change the delay time between requests, or add some ignore rules to avoid crawling certain web cruft. This IRC interface is collaborative, meaning anyone with permission can adjust the parameter of jobs. Note that the bot isn't a chat bot so it will ignore you if it doesn't understand a command.<br />
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Dashboard<br />
:The [http://archivebot.com/3 '''ArchiveBot dashboard'''] is a web-based front-end displaying the URLs being downloaded by the various web crawls. Each URL line in the dashboard is categorized by its HTTP code into successes, warnings, and errors. It will be highlighted in yellow or red. The dashboard also provides RSS feeds and [http://archivebot.com/pending a list of pending jobs].<br />
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Backend<br />
:The backend contains the database of all jobs and several maintenance tasks such as trimming logs and posting Tweets on Twitter. The backend is the centralized portion of ArchiveBot.<br />
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Crawler<br />
:The crawler will download and spider the website into WARC files. The crawler is the distributed portion of ArchiveBot. Volunteers run pipeline nodes connected to the backend. The backend will tell the nodes/pipelines what jobs to run. Once the crawl job has finished, the pipeline reports back to the backend and uploads the WARC files to the staging server. This process is handled by a supervisor script called a pipeline.<br />
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Staging server<br />
:The staging server, known as [[Fortress of Solitude|Fortress of Solitude (FOS)]], is the place where all the WARC files are temporarily uploaded. Once the current batch has been approved, the files will be uploaded to the Internet Archive for consumption by the Wayback Machine.<br />
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== Source Code ==<br />
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ArchiveBot's source code can be found at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot. [[Dev|Contributions welcomed]]! Any issues or feature requests may be filed at [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot/issues the issue tracker].<br />
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== People ==<br />
The main server that controls the IRC bot, pipeline manager backend, and web dashboard is operated by [[User:yipdw|yipdw]], although a few other ArchiveTeam members were given SSH access in late 2017. The staging server [[Fortress of Solitude|Fortress of Solitude (FOS)]], where the data sits for final checks before being moved over to the Internet Archive servers, is operated by [[User:jscott|SketchCow]]. The pipelines are operated by various volunteers around the world. Each pipeline typically runs two or three web crawl jobs at any given time.<br />
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== Volunteer to run a Pipeline ==<br />
As of November 2017, ArchiveBot has again started accepting applications from volunteers who want to set up new pipelines. '''Note that we only accept pipelines from people who have been active on ArchiveTeam for a while.''' You'll need to have a machine with:<br />
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* lots of disk space (40 GB minimum / 200 GB recommended / 500 GB atypical)<br />
* 512 MB RAM (2 GB recommended, 2 GB swap recommended)<br />
* 10 Mb/s upload/download speeds (100 Mb/s recommended)<br />
* long-term availability (2 months minimum)<br />
* always-on unrestricted internet access (absolutely no firewall/proxies/censorship/ISP-injected-ads/DNS-redirection/free-cafe-wifi)<br />
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If you have a suitable server available and would like to volunteer, please review the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot/blob/master/INSTALL.pipeline Pipeline Install] instructions. Then contact ArchiveTeam members [[User:Asparagirl|Asparagirl]], [[User:astrid|astrid]], [[User:JustAnotherArchivist|JAA]], [[User:yipdw|yipdw]], or other ArchiveTeam members hanging out in #archivebot, and we can hook you up, adding your machine to the list of approved pipelines, so that it will start processing incoming ArchiveBot jobs.<br />
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=== Caveats ===<br />
As of August 2018, there are a few things you need to be aware of when operating an ArchiveBot pipeline:<br />
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* '''Never, ever press ^C on the pipeline.''' Use <code>touch STOP</code> in the <code>ArchiveBot/pipeline</code> directory instead to stop the pipeline.<br />
* Please give access to the pipeline for maintenance work when you're away (e.g. holidays, busy <abbr title="In Real Life">IRL</abbr>) to someone who's around frequently. This is to avoid situations where jobs or pipelines are stuck for weeks or months without anyone being able to intervene.<br />
* Jobs that crash with an error need to be killed manually using <code>kill -9</code>.<br />
* The log files of jobs that are aborted or crash are not uploaded to the Internet Archive. Please keep the temporary <code>tmp-wpull-*.log.gz</code> files in the pipeline directory, rename them so the filename follows the same format as the <abbr title="JavaScript Object Notation">JSON</abbr> file (with extension <code>.log.gz</code> instead of <code>.json</code>), and upload them to FOS manually.<br />
** You can find the job ID for these files in the second line.<br />
** Finding the correct filename can be a bit tricky. You can use the viewer or the [https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/archivebot-archives archivebot-archives] repository. Keep in mind that the timestamp in the filename should approximately match the one at the beginning of the log file, though there is usually a difference between the two of at least a few seconds (the log file timestamps being later than the filename timestamp).<br />
** Be careful with the filename if there were multiple jobs for the same URL (i.e. the same job ID).<br />
** Here is a public gist on GitHub explaining step by step how to find the proper log file for your crashed or killed job, how to properly rename it, and how to rsync it up to FOS: [[https://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/155bd3c8ee4b8ad5ed737e45bcad1a5a]]<br />
** Contact [[User:JustAnotherArchivist]] if you need help with this.<br />
* Due to a bug somewhere deep in the network stack, connections get stuck from time to time. This causes jobs to slow down or halt entirely.<br />
** As a workaround, you can use the [https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/kill-wpull-connections kill-wpull-connections] script; it requires pgrep, lsof, and gdb. Depending on the machine configuration (specifically, the value of <code>kernel.yama.ptrace_scope</code> in <code>/proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope</code>), it may also require root/sudo privileges.<br />
** In very rare cases, you may need to use [http://killcx.sourceforge.net/ killcx] to close the connections.<br />
** [https://github.com/kristrev/tcp_closer tcp_closer] works even when the two methods above fail. It uses the SOCK_DESTROY kernel operation provided by Linux >= 4.5.<br />
* Also due to a bug suspected to be in the network stack, wpull processes sometimes use a lot of RAM (and CPU). If a process uses more than 300 MB continuously, that's likely the case. kill-wpull-connections seems to "fix" this issue, though it takes a while (minutes, rarely even an hour or more) from running the script until the usage actually drops down.<br />
** If wpull paused due to high RAM usage try creating a swap file and forcing RAM pages to swap. wpull only checks RAM usage.<br />
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dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=1024000<br />
mkswap swapfile<br />
swapon swapfile<br />
perl -e '$tmp = "a" x 999999999'<br />
swapoff swapfile<br />
rm swapfile<br />
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* Make sure that you don't have any <code>search</code> or <code>domain</code> line in <code>/etc/resolv.conf</code>. We've grabbed a number of copies of the websites of [https://us.OVHcloud.com/about/company <abbr title="OVHcloud">OVH</abbr>] and Online.net as a result of such lines and broken <code>http://www/</code> links... (Cf [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot/issues/318 this issue on GitHub])<br />
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== Significant incidents ==<br />
This section lists incidents with ArchiveBot operations that resulted in large or unknown casualties. It does not include individual job crashes, power outages, etc. that had a well-known impact (e.g. causing a job to be incomplete).<br />
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* December 2017: Due to a typo, rsync uploads from one pipeline kept overwriting themselves, which lead to some unknown amount of data loss.<br />
* December 2018 to January 2019: 6 weeks worth of jobs on a machine, in total around 6.8&nbsp;TiB in downloads, were lost due to a broken script overwriting files.<br />
* January 2022: The RAID controller on a machine started dropping the array randomly, which caused file corruption. Three jobs crashed directly due to corruption of the SQLite database (30m0ryds1amy2zp0a2ka3jn9m 33quxn0oovlli18itkn73sa0h 8eq68xsrr9d65ed81dfsd6k8r). Some WARCs were visibly corrupted and became partially unreadable. It's not certain whether there might have been any silent corruption.<br />
* May 2022<ref>Pipeline IDs: pipeline:63b112ff83f123cc934166391f3778fe, pipeline:193cb6a171533c7ede3071c43aa84049, pipeline:0622b20d39f5ca69695103725351dbd3, pipeline:2f7d46fc67f0af886b781f082814bea8, pipeline:9e30671b02e58e5f60418368c53fe6cc, and pipeline:7582468775e2c44eed14b5f32784ec90</ref>: A machine that had been operational since June 2021 had a probable hardware issue. The visible damage of this were three crashes with impossible errors (3s66zwax98l3tqgv7s2j4s6i2 787ob2zl0ode9zeaqn9zwlzut 4uyikz4xdow0jvtxh7izwyvka) and three segfaults (caystmftz9m6netuzuxt4gk7b 7i2a5s799pl6rgfnxtkxpfs5j ef6sdm60zhqc8qn3ekse4aedx), the first of which occurred on 2022-04-01. It can't be ruled out that and is practically impossible to analyse whether the downloaded data may have been corrupted in some way as well.<br />
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== Installation ==<br />
Installing the ArchiveBot can be difficult. The [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot/blob/master/INSTALL.pipeline Pipeline Install] instructions are online, but are tricky.<br />
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But there is a [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot/blob/master/.travis.yml Travis.yml automated install script] for [https://travis-ci.org/ArchiveTeam/ArchiveBot Travis-cl] that is designed to test the ArchiveBot. <br />
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Since it's good enough for testing... it's good enough for installation, right? There must be a way to convert it into an installer script.<br />
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== Disclaimers ==<br />
# Everything is provided on a best-effort basis; nothing is guaranteed to work. (We're volunteers, not a support team.)<br />
# We can decide to stop a job or ban a user if a job is deemed unnecessary. (We don't want to run up operator bandwidth bills and waste Internet Archive donations on costs.)<br />
# We're not Internet Archive. (We do what we want.)<br />
# We're not the Wayback Machine. Specifically, we are not <code>ia_archiver</code> or <code>archive.org_bot</code>. (We don't run crawlers on behalf of other crawlers.)<br />
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Occasionally, we had to ban blocks of IP addresses from the channel. If you think a ban does not apply to you but cannot join the #archivebot channel, please join the main #archiveteam channel instead.<br />
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== Bad behavior ==<br />
If you are a website operator and you notice ArchiveBot misbehaving, please contact us on #archivebot or #archiveteam on hackint (see top of page for links).<br />
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ArchiveBot understands [[robots.txt]] (please read the article) but does not match any directives. It uses it for discovering more links such as sitemaps however.<br />
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Also, please remember that '''we are not the [[Internet Archive|Internet Archive]]'''.<br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
* One of the ArchiveBot commands, <code>!yahoo</code>, has been named after [[Yahoo!]]. This command makes the bot archive the page in a more aggressive manner to speed up the archival process.<br />
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== Usage, Dashboards, and Completed Job Viewer ==<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
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! Function !! URL<br />
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| ArchiveBot documentation, usage guide, manual || http://archivebot.rtfd.io/<br />
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| ArchiveBot traditional dashboard - shows currently active jobs || http://archivebot.com/<br />
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| ArchiveBot newer-style dashboard - shows currently active jobs || http://archivebot.com/3<br />
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| ArchiveBot dashboard - shows pending jobs || http://archivebot.com/pending<br />
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| ArchiveBot dashboard - shows ignores for a specific job || <nowiki>http://archivebot.com/ignores/<JOBID></nowiki><br />Adding the query parameter <code>?compact=true</code> provides a condensed representation for ignore sets.<br />
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| ArchiveBot Pipeline Monitor Station - shows the status of the deployed crawler pipeline || http://archivebot.com/pipelines or https://control.archiveteam.net/<br />
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| ArchiveBot finished jobs - shows jobs that have finished recently || http://archivebot.com/finished<br />
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| ArchiveBot status - job statistics, especially for programmatic usage || http://archivebot.com/status<br />
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| ArchiveBot Viewer - explore previously archived items || https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/<br />
|-<br />
| ChromeBot dashboard - shows pending, running, and finished jobs || http://chromebot.6xq.net/<br />
|}<br />
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== Usage Caveats a.k.a. Things Not To Do With ArchiveBot a.k.a. How To Lose Your Voice ==<br />
Do not do these things (unless otherwise approved by #archivebot channel ops):<br />
* attempt to archive file storage mirrors, whether on HTTP or FTP (original file storage sites might be okay...but ask first. Mirroring every Linux ISO mirror site is not a good use of archive resources.)<br />
* attempt to archive very large sites, including some forums (jobs with up to a few million URLs are usually okay, but it's difficult to predict the total count in advance, and factors like high latency, large responses (especially HTML), and high cookie counts can also cause issues)<br />
* attempt to archive anything a channel op has told you not to archive<br />
* continue to archive stuff after a channel op has asked you a question and has not cleared you to continue<br />
<br />
== Suggested things to focus on archiving with ArchiveBot ==<br />
* [[Company acquisitions and mergers]] - companies that are being, or have been, acquired or merged<br />
* [[ISP Hosting]] - user homepages on ISPs that have not previously been saved<br />
* Web presence/content/social media of people that have newly become notable/famous/infamous/featured in the news media. Renewed focus applies if they make important or outrageous public statements that may later be retracted, and also when they pass away as their online records may change/vanish afterwards.<br />
<br />
== Alternative dashboard clients ==<br />
<br />
There are ways to interact with the ArchiveBot dashboard WebSocket without using the JavaScript frontends:<br />
<br />
* [https://github.com/ludiosarchive/gs-firehose gs-firehose] - written in Rust - doesn't build any more.<br />
* Pipe the WebSocket output to an existing JSON processor<br />
** Extract the WebSocket JSON stream with one of:<br />
*** <code>websocat 'ws://archivebot.com:4568/stream'</code><br />
*** <code>uwsc -q 'ws://archivebot.com:4568/stream' | tr -d '\10'</code><br />
** Filter the JSON stream using a JSON processor<br />
*** A simple jq command: <code>env site=https://phillyfunguide.com/ jq -r -c 'select(.job_data.url == env.site) | (.response_code | tostring) + " " + .wget_code + " " + .url'</code><br />
*** A more complex jq command, wrapped in a shell function:<br />
<pre><br />
archivebot-monitor () {<br />
(<br />
export key="$1"<br />
<br />
export black="$(tput setaf 0)"<br />
export red="$(tput setaf 1)"<br />
export green="$(tput setaf 2)"<br />
export yellow="$(tput setaf 3)"<br />
export blue="$(tput setaf 4)"<br />
export magenta="$(tput setaf 5)"<br />
export cyan="$(tput setaf 6)"<br />
export white="$(tput setaf 7)"<br />
<br />
export reset="$(tput sgr0)"<br />
export reset_colour="$(tput op)$(tput oc)"<br />
export erase_line="$(tput el)"<br />
export get_position="$(tput u7)"<br />
<br />
websocat 'ws://archivebot.com:4568/stream' |<br />
jq -r -c '<br />
select(<br />
(.job_data.url | contains(env.key)) or<br />
(.job_data.ident | contains(env.key)) or<br />
(.job_data.started_by == env.key)<br />
) |<br />
if .is_error then<br />
env.red<br />
elif .is_warning then<br />
env.yellow<br />
elif .response_code >= 300 and .response_code < 400 then<br />
env.blue<br />
else<br />
""<br />
end<br />
+<br />
if .type=="download" then<br />
(.response_code | tostring) + " " + .wget_code + " " + .url<br />
elif .type=="stdout" then<br />
.message<br />
else <br />
.<br />
end<br />
+<br />
if .is_error or .is_warning or (.response_code >= 300 and .response_code < 400) then<br />
env.reset<br />
else<br />
""<br />
end<br />
'<br />
)<br />
}<br />
</pre> <br />
<br />
== Related Links ==<br />
* http://archivebot.com is a DNS alias for the ArchiveBot dashboard<br />
* [[Chromebot]] was an IRC bot parallel to ArchiveBot that used Google Chrome and thus was able to archive JavaScript-heavy and pages with endless scrolling. It was available in the #archivebot channel until April 2021.<br />
* https://twitter.com/ArchiveBot - dormant current Twitter feed of ArchiveBot activity. Tweets may lag live dashboard. Dormant since 2018-04-12.<br />
* https://twitter.com/ATArchiveBot - former Twitter feed of ArchiveBot activity. Last used 2014-07-28 as @ATArchiveBot was replaced by @ArchiveBot.<br />
* https://archive.org/details/archivebot - ArchiveTeam ArchiveBot collection at the Internet Archive<br />
<br />
== More ==<br />
Like ArchiveBot? Check out our [[Main_Page|homepage]] and other [[projects]]!<br />
<br />
== Notes ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
{{archivebot}}<br />
{{navigation_box}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:Bots]]</div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Switchnode&diff=50239User:Switchnode2023-07-17T01:53:41Z<p>Switchnode: dumb workaround</p>
<hr />
<div>= Gee, those bot channels sure are noisy! =<br />
<br />
If you'd like them to be quieter and you use Weechat, try these. (Don't forget to save!)<br />
<br />
== [[ArchiveBot|#archivebot]] ==<br />
<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>archivebot shouldn't be considered a reliable chat channel. But...<br />
<br />
Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
* <code>/trigger add tag_highlights line "" "${highlight} == 1" "/$/highlight,/tags"</code> (tags highlights)<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_bots irc.hackint.#archivebot nick_Aramaki+!highlight,nick_socialbot+!highlight *</code><br />
<br />
Hide bot commands other than <code>archive</code>, <code>archiveonly</code>, and <code>snscrape</code>, except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^!([^a]|abort)</code><br />
''Or,'' hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^(!|socialbot)</code><br />
<br />
== [[Telegram|#telegrab]] ==<br />
<br />
Hide bot responses other than the 'scanning' message and the final item count:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_h2ibot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot !(^h2ibot:|: No public index)</code><br />
<br />
Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
: (This is complicated because it needs to be stateful, due to the way h2ibot 'talks to itself'. It may fumble if you and others are submitting jobs at the same time, but this is rare, self-limiting, and easily elucidated with <code>/filter toggle telegrab_bot</code>.)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_on line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;self_msg" "${message} =~ ^!a" "" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 1"</code> (starts listening)<br />
* <code><nowiki>/trigger add telegrab_bot_off line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "${plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on} && ((${highlight} && (${message} =~ : Invalid command message.$)) || (${message} =~ h2ibot: Deduplicated and queued [[:digit:]]+ items.))" "/$/listen,/tags" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 0"</nowiki></code> (stops listening)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_tag line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "${plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on}" "/$/listen,/tags"</nowiki></code> (tags listened messages)<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_bot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot+!listen *</code><br />
Hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_commands irc.hackint.#telegrab !self_msg ^!</code></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Switchnode&diff=50238User:Switchnode2023-07-17T01:01:56Z<p>Switchnode: add telegrab filters</p>
<hr />
<div>= Gee, those bot channels sure are noisy! =<br />
<br />
If you'd like them to be quieter and you use Weechat, try these. (Don't forget to save!)<br />
<br />
== [[ArchiveBot|#archivebot]] ==<br />
<br />
<nowiki>#</nowiki>archivebot shouldn't be considered a reliable chat channel. But...<br />
<br />
Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
* <code>/trigger add tag_highlights line "" "${highlight} == 1" "/$/highlight,/tags"</code> (tags highlights)<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_bots irc.hackint.#archivebot nick_Aramaki+!highlight,nick_socialbot+!highlight *</code><br />
<br />
Hide bot commands other than <code>archive</code>, <code>archiveonly</code>, and <code>snscrape</code>, except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^!([^a]|abort)</code><br />
''Or,'' hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add archivebot_commands irc.hackint.#archivebot !self_msg ^(!|socialbot)</code><br />
<br />
== [[Telegram|#telegrab]] ==<br />
<br />
Hide bot responses other than the 'scanning' message and the final item count:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_h2ibot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot !(^h2ibot:|: No public index)</code><br />
<br />
Hide all bot responses except those directed at you:<br />
: (This is complicated because it needs to be stateful, due to the way h2ibot 'talks to itself'. It may fumble if you and others are submitting jobs at the same time, but this is rare, self-limiting, and easily elucidated with <code>/filter toggle telegrab_bot</code>.)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_on line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;self_msg" "${message} =~ ^!a" "" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 1"</code> (starts listening)<br />
* <code><nowiki>/trigger add telegrab_bot_off line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "(${highlight} && (${message} =~ : Invalid command message.$)) || (${message} =~ h2ibot: Deduplicated and queued [[:digit:]]+ items.)" "/$/listen,/tags" "/mute /set plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on 0"</nowiki></code> (stops listening)<br />
* <code>/trigger add telegrab_bot_tag line "*;irc.hackint.#telegrab;nick_h2ibot" "${plugins.var.trigger.telegrab_bot.on}" "/$/listen,/tags"</nowiki></code> (tags listened messages)<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_bot irc.hackint.#telegrab nick_h2ibot+!listen *</code><br />
Hide all bot commands except yours:<br />
* <code>/filter add telegrab_commands irc.hackint.#telegrab !self_msg ^!</code></div>Switchnodehttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=50102Deathwatch2023-07-02T00:36:46Z<p>Switchnode: /* 2023 */ update harvard blogs</p>
<hr />
<div>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.<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
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]].<br />
<br />
== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
<br />
Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
<br />
=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 1st: {{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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://www.wysp.ws/|Wysp}}, an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.)<br />
* '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><br />
* July 12: [[Banciyuan|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community, is going to close.<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shuts down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, will shut down. All served images are currently watermarked with a shutdown notice.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp|Dwango JP News}} will be terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* <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>.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}} is shutting down.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]] is to be fully terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, will 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, part of [[Niconico]], will 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 will launch in April.<br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} to be migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, announced they're shutting down. {{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11uo91x/archive_request_egloos_korean_blogging_platform/|Reddit Post}} about the shutdown.<br />
* 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><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, will close.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, announced they're shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* May 8: Github Team Discussions will be 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
<br />
===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
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* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 1st: {{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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://www.wysp.ws/|Wysp}}, an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* '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><br />
* July 12: [[Banciyuan|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community, is going to close.<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{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 be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2023/03/02/blogs-harvard-edu-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shuts down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, will shut down. All served images are currently watermarked with a shutdown notice.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp|Dwango JP News}} will be terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* <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>.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}} is shutting down.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]] is to be fully terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, will 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, part of [[Niconico]], will 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 will launch in April.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} to be migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, announced they're shutting down. {{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11uo91x/archive_request_egloos_korean_blogging_platform/|Reddit Post}} about the shutdown.<br />
* 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><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, will close.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, announced they're shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* May 8: Github Team Discussions will be 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://www.tianya.cn|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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/}} (粵韻流聲), a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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== What is the Archive Team Warrior? ==<br />
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[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
[[File:Archiveteam_warrior_infrastructure.png|thumb|right|256px|[[Dev/Infrastructure|Warrior infastructure]]]]<br />
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The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive—and it’s really easy to do!<br />
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The warrior is a container running inside a virtual machine, so there is almost no security risk to your computer. "Almost", because in practice nothing is 100% secure. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space, as well as some of your CPU and memory. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
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== Basic usage ==<br />
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The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can run it using a virtual machine (simplest) or using Docker (slightly more complicated, but much less overhead than the VM).<br />
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=== Installing and running with a virtual machine ===<br />
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You'll need:<br />
* The Warrior Appliance (size: 123MB, current version: 3.2), from one of the following locations:<br />
** [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior/releases GitHub]<br />
** [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Archive Team]<br />
** [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ Syping Development (DE)]<br />
** [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013 Internet Archive] (outdated but still functional)<br />
* A virtualization application to run it, such as:<br />
** [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended, open source) <br />
** [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player] (may have some compatibility issues, free-gratis for personal use)<br />
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==== VirtualBox ====<br />
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# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox.<br />
# In VirtualBox, click <code>File > Import Appliance</code> and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
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A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE video demonstrating these steps] is available. (Note that the screen indicating that the Warrior has finished loading looks different than the one from when this video was made, but the steps are otherwise the same.)<br />
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==== VMware Player ====<br />
Note that VMware Player may have some compatibility issues with running the Warrior image.<br />
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# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VMware Player.<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
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=== Installing and running with Docker ===<br />
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You'll need [https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ Docker] (open source) and the Warrior Docker image.<br />
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# Download Docker from the link above and install it.<br />
# Open your terminal. On Windows, you can use either Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell. On macOS and Linux you can use Terminal (Bash).<br />
# Use the following command to start the Warrior as well as Watchtower, which will automatically keep your Warrior updated: <pre>docker run --detach --name watchtower --restart=on-failure --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --interval 3600 && docker run --detach --name archiveteam-warrior --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=on-failure --publish 8001:8001 atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre> Note that the current version of this command may not persist Warrior configuration (username, selected project, and item concurrency) across container/dependency updates unless they are [[/Docker environment variables|specified in environment variables]]. These types of updates typically only occur once every few months and are far less frequent than normal script updates, which happen inside the container without affecting the container configuration. (For a full explanation of this command, see items 3 and 4 [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker#Instructions_for_using_Docker_CLI_on_Windows.2C_macOS.2C_or_Linux|here]].)<br/>You may wish to protect the web configuration interface for your Warrior by setting a username and password for the web interface and by adding a rule to your firewall (such as [https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker#solving-ufw-and-docker-issues ufw]).<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
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=== Installing and running with Podman ===<br />
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You'll need podman & systemd installed for this. This uses the same image as docker above, but uses podman instead of docker and replaces Watchtower with [https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-auto-update.1.html podman-auto-update]. A volume named `at-warrior-projects` is created with the persistent state used for the Warrior. As a result, restarts of the container/auto-updates preserve previous configuration.<br />
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podman create --name at-warrior --label=io.containers.autoupdate=registry --publish 8001:8001 --volume at-warrior-projects:/home/warrior/projects atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile<br />
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user<br />
podman generate systemd --new at-warrior >~/.config/systemd/user/at-warrior.service<br />
systemctl --user daemon-reload<br />
systemctl --user enable --now at-warrior.service<br />
systemctl --user enable --now podman-auto-update.timer<br />
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Many systems don't leave user processes running after logout by default, which causes the podman containers to stop when you log out. This can be mitigated by enabling ''lingering'':<br />
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sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER<br />
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== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
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=== Why a virtual machine/container in the first place? ===<br />
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The Warrior is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
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* Graphical interface (virtual machine only)<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
* Can be configured to restart automatically after a system restart ([[#How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically?|see below]]).<br />
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If you have suggestions for improving this system, [[#I_still_have_a_question.21|talk to us]].<br />
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=== Can I use whatever internet access for the Warrior? ===<br />
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No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
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* Use a DNS server that issues correct responses. Pinging a nonexistent domain should never return any IP, it should return NXDOMAIN. As an example, before 2014 OpenDNS redirected requests for nonexistent domains to a search page with ads. This is not clean. Another example of an "unclean" DNS is [[wikipedia:CleanBrowsing|CleanBrowsing]] which aims to shield its users from fap material. The DNS should preferably not attempt to filter anything, not even phishing domains. 9.9.9.10 from [[wikipedia:Quad9|Quad9]] may be a good public DNS. 8.8.8.8 from Google should be unfiltered as well.<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages or otherwise scan/filter/change content. The practice is less common nowadays as most sites use [[wikipedia:HTTPS|SSL]] which complicates injection. Doesn't stop ''some'' parties from trying anyway.<ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates/|Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates }}</ref><br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No major censorship. If you believe your country implements major censorship, do not run a warrior. Examples are [[wikipedia:Internet censorship in China|China]] and [[wikipedia:Censorship in Turkey#Internet censorship|Turkey]]. What content may or may not be accessible is unpredictable in these countries, and requests may return a page that says "this website is blocked" which is unhelpful to archive. "Minor" censorship is far more common: where a small number of sites are blocked, the blocks are widely announced and blocks are not frequently implemented. For example, several countries have blocked [[wikipedia:The Pirate Bay|The Pirate Bay]] and a ruling from the European Commission requires European providers to block access to [[wikipedia:RT (TV network)|RT]] and [[wikipedia:Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]]. Another example of "minor" censorship is when access is blocked to sites you wouldn't want to archive in a million years, like those dedicated to hosting imagery of child abuse. While censorship is always a bad idea (and abusive sites should be shut down, not blocked), "minor" censorship ''typically'' won't (..or shouldn't) affect Warrior as the blocks are predictable. Obviously you won't be able to contribute to archiving sites that are blocked for you. When in any doubt, ask on IRC first.<br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe/public transport/store wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful. In addition, you may slow down the service for the people around you.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged. Servers may also be more likely to deploy a rate limit or serve a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] page when using a VPN which is unhelpful to archive.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public unshared IP addresses if possible. If a single IP attempts to back up an entire site, it may result in that IP getting banned by the server. Also, if a server ''does'' ban an IP, we'd rather this ban only affects you and not everyone in your apartment building.<br />
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=== I turned my Warrior off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
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If you've killed your Warrior, then the work it was doing has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them.<br />
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=== I closed my browser or tab with the Warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
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No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the Warrior. As long as the VM or Docker container is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
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=== How can I shut down the Warrior without losing work? ===<br />
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==== Recommended method ====<br />
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Click the "Shut down" button on the left of the web interface. All the current tasks will still finish, but no new ones will be started. When a banner appears saying "There is no connection with the warrior", the Warrior has finished shutting down. (If you would rather use the command line than the web interface, [[#How_can_I_run_the_Warrior_headlessly_.28without_leaving_a_window_open.29.3F|see below]]).<br />
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==== Suspend/resume with the virtual machine ====<br />
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If you don't want to wait (perhaps because a task is long-running), you can use VirtualBox's <code>Machine > Pause</code> or VMware's <code>VM > Pause</code> to suspend the Warrior VM, then resume it when you are ready to work again. Note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the tracker will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it—but suspending in order to reboot your computer or reset your internet connection should be perfectly fine.<br />
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==== Suspend/resume with the Docker container ====<br />
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If you don't want to wait, you're out of luck; Docker does not have a feature for suspending containers. <br />
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=== How much disk space will the Warrior use? ===<br />
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Short answer: it depends on the project. The virtual machine has a hard limit of 60GB disk usage, but the Docker container does not have such a limit. However, it is highly unlikely that any project would use more than 60GB of disk space at any time.<br />
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Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB, but Docker has no hard limit. Any unused virtual machine or Docker container disk space is not used on the host computer. You may configure the virtual machine to run on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
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=== How can I log into the Warrior? ===<br />
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Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. <br />
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==== Virtual machine ====<br />
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With the Warrior running, press ALT+F4 to switch to virtual console number 4. VirtualBox users may need to press the host key, RIGHT_CONTROL, to enter capture mode before pressing ALT+F4. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for the warrior. Switching to a new virtual console will show a login shell. You can login using the username <code>root</code> and the password <code>archiveteam</code>.<br />
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==== Docker container ====<br />
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With the Warrior running, open your terminal and run <code>sudo docker exec -t -i archiveteam-warrior /bin/bash</code>. Replace 'archiveteam-warrior' with the name of your Warrior container if necessary.<br />
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=== How can I run multiple Warriors at the same time? ===<br />
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This usually isn't necessary; if you want to increase your work on a project, you can increase the number of items your Warrior will work on at the same time. In the web interface, go to the "Your settings" tab, tick the "Show advanced settings" box, and edit the "Concurrent items" field. The maximum concurrency is 6.<br />
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==== Virtual machines ====<br />
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You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
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In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up <code>Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Port Forwarding</code>. You need to adjust the host port. For example, setting your table to <code>TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001</code> will map port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
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VMware installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter</code>) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
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Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
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==== Docker containers ====<br />
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You'll need to adjust the run command used to create the containers.<br />
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First, each container needs a unique name, so you will need to replace the name specified with the <code>--name</code> parameter with something unique.<br />
<br />
Second, you will need to specify a unique port to access the web interface of each container. You can do this by changing the number before the <code>:</code> in the <code>--publish</code> parameter to any available unique port number equal to or greater than 1024. (Additional options for specifying ports are explained in the [https://docs.docker.com/network/links/#connect-using-network-port-mapping Docker documentation].)<br />
<br />
You may also want to reuse your configuration between different Docker containers; you can do this by specifying the same [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#using-environment-variables environment variables] or bindmounting the same <code>config.json</code> file across all of your containers. See the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#readme Warrior Dockerfile README] for more details about this.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the Warrior headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
From the VirtualBox GUI, after opening the VM, click <code>Machine > Detach GUI</code>. You can then close the VirtualBox Manager window.<br />
<br />
For the VirtualBox CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>VBoxManage startvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --type headless</code> and shut it down with <code>VBoxManage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 acpipowerbutton</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
<br />
For the VMware CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</code> and shut it down with <code>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM; resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
The container does not have a GUI, and if run with <code>--detach</code> (as the instructions suggest), it will not occupy your terminal window either. It is therefore headless by default. You can start up the container with <code>docker start archiveteam-warrior</code> and shut it down with <code>docker kill --signal=SIGINT archiveteam-warrior</code>.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can set the VM up as a system service by following the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If the container is run with <code>--restart=on-failure</code> (as the instructions suggest), Docker will automatically start it on boot.<br />
<br />
Additionally, you'll want to specify a project, e.g. <code>-e SELECTED_PROJECT=auto</code> and likely a nickname, e.g. <code>-e DOWNLOADER=MyCoolNickname</code>. See [[/Docker environment variables]] for more info.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --nic1 bridged<br />
VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMware installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I access the virtual machine from another device on my network? ===<br />
<br />
Full guide for VirtualBox users is found [https://gist.github.com/HeliosLHC/cf3264c8d65b4680474ac13bcc6d0384 here].<br />
<br />
=== What's new in version 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine? ===<br />
<br />
This update enables running newer projects, shortens startup times, enables viewing basic logs from the virtual machine console (press ALT+F2 for Warrior logs, press ALT+F3 for automatic updater logs, and press ALT+F1 to return to the splash screen), and has other minor improvements. Warriors versions 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update themselves with the project compatibility improvements, but the other improvements require re-creating the VM with version 3.2 of the appliance.<br />
<br />
=== Are previous versions of the Warrior still supported? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
Currently, versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine are functional and supported, and are capable of automatically retrieving updated components as needed. Support for version 2 and prior of the Warrior virtual machine was discontinued around 2018 due to outdated SSL support.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
We always recommend using the latest version of the Warrior Docker image, as new and updated projects often require the updated components provided by newer Docker images. If you run the Docker container with Watchtower (as the instructions suggest), your Docker container will automatically be kept up-to-date.<br />
<br />
=== Can I run the Warrior on ARM or some other unusual architecture? ===<br />
No, currently we do not allow ARM (used on Raspberry Pi and M1 Macs) or other non-x86 architectures. This is because we have previously discovered questionable practices in the Wget archive-creating components and are not confident it runs under different endiannesses etc. If you still want to run it apparently [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker|Docker]] can emulate x86_64.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of Warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current Archive Team project leads what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
<br />
Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
<br />
Archive Team volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavor of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
<br />
Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
<br />
The instructions for [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines.2FDocker_containers_at_the_same_time.3F|running multiple Warriors on one machine]] may be helpful. However, you should also consider [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]] rather than the Warrior; these have even less overhead and can be configured with greater concurrency.<br />
<br />
=== What are the alternatives to using the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
One is [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]]. This is particularly useful if you want to deploy a large amount of computing power.<br />
<br />
Another is running individual projects directly. Check the source repository for the project you're interested in and follow the instructions for running without a Warrior in the README. This is particularly useful if you want to deploy on a machine where you don't have root.<br />
<br />
We generally recommend that people use the Warrior, because it is simple for non-technical users to set up and it requires no supervision. You should only use these alternatives if you are comfortable with Linux and prepared to manually intervene when projects begin and end.<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What do the different counters mean? ===<br />
<br />
<code>claims</code> is the number of items that have been claimed by workers but not yet returned. <code>done</code> is the number of items returned. The four <code>todo</code> counters are for the queues from which workers claim items, in order: <code>todo</code>, the main queue; <code>todo:backfeed</code>, typically items discovered by workers processing other items; <code>todo:secondary</code>, typically items of lower priority; and <code>todo:redo</code>, typically items that have been claimed but took too long to be returned. (Some projects give the queues different meanings.)<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
<br />
That's just the warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the warrior. Those without the icon are running the project manually.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
<br />
The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
<br />
=== That’s awesome—can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
<br />
=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
<br />
In order to ensure data accuracy, it is imperative that users contributing to Archive Team projects '''do not modify the project scripts'''. If you would like to propose improvements to be included in future official versions of/updates to project scripts or would like to use our code for non-Archive Team projects, check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
<br />
=== I still have a question! ===<br />
<br />
Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/archiveteam-bs #archiveteam-bs] for general questions.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
<br />
=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
<br />
If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
<br />
You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
<br />
You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
<br />
To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
<br />
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<br />
This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
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=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
Make sure you invoked <code>docker run</code> with the option <code>--publish</code>. To access the web interface at http://localhost:X/, you must use <code>--publish X:8001</code>.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
<br />
This may manifest as the following error:<br />
<br />
<code><br />
Checking Internet<br />
wget: bad address 'warriorhq.archiveteam.org'<br />
Unable to access the Internet<br />
</code><br />
<br />
It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
<br />
If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
<br />
Another option is to switch to "Host bridge" under settings of the network adapter. If you do this, you won't be able to connect to 127.0.0.1, instead use the first IP in the list below (without the /32, with :8001 at the end).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
<br />
This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
<br />
* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
<br />
(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
<br />
If you like, you can switch to another [[Current_Projects#Warrior-based_projects|project]] with less load.<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the Warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work. This error can also occur if the project is paused, though that isn't as common.<br />
<br />
=== I'm running a project manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
<br />
If you are running the scripts using Docker, we recommend using Watchtower to check for updates every hour, downloading and installing them when necessary. See the setup instructions in [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]] for more details.<br />
<br />
If you are not running the scripts using the provided Docker images, try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
<br />
=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
<br />
If those messages are saying <code>max connections reached -- try again later</code>, then everything is fine and the file will be uploaded eventually.<br />
<br />
If the above error persists for hours (for the same item), or if the error message says something else, then something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
<br />
=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
<br />
The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
<br />
This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
<br />
For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
<br />
On VMware (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter > Advanced</code>. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
You're out of luck; Docker has no feature for limiting bandwidth.<br />
<br />
=== The Warrior virtual machine is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
<br />
Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
<br />
* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the VirtualBox CLI to compact the disk. First, shut down the VM. Then, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the hard-disk VDI file is stored. Finally, run <code>VBoxManage modifymedium --compact archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code>, replacing <code>archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code> with the name of the VDI file in use by the Warrior VM. See the [https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifymedium VirtualBox documentation] for more details and additional steps to help achieve a better result.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
<br />
This issue should not affect Docker containers.<br />
<br />
=== My Warrior crashed, or I had to hard-stop it, and I don't think there's time to retry the tasks. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the project [[Archiveteam:IRC|IRC]] channel, including for stops due to system failures and power outages as well as hard-kills. Do not attempt to start or restart the affected containers. If time is indeed a concern, we can help you save or recover partial data from your Warrior.<br />
<br />
(The same applies if your Warrior is still running, but tasks are now stuck—especially if they're stuck because the project has reached its deadline and the target site is now gone. Most projects should handle this gracefully, but contact us if they do not.)<br />
<br />
=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the Warrior.<br />
<br />
=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the Warrior yet? ===<br />
<br />
Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
<br />
=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
<br />
We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
<br />
=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
<br />
Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
<br />
We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
<br />
=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
<br />
If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
<br />
== Projects ==<br />
<br />
See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
<br />
== Are you a coder? ==<br />
<br />
Like the Warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
<br />
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<div>{{notice|1=The current versions of the Warrior Docker image and the Warrior virtual machine image should now be compatible with most projects; however some projects may still not be compatible and show a blank screen when attempting to run them. As an alternative, you can [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|run individual projects manually using Docker]].<br />
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If you have any issues or feedback, see the [[Archiveteam:IRC|AT #warrior IRC channel on hackint]].}}<br />
<br />
== What is the Archive Team Warrior? ==<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
[[File:Archiveteam_warrior_infrastructure.png|thumb|right|256px|[[Dev/Infrastructure|Warrior infastructure]]]]<br />
<br />
The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the Archive Team archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive—and it’s really easy to do!<br />
<br />
The warrior is a container running inside a virtual machine, so there is almost no security risk to your computer. "Almost", because in practice nothing is 100% secure. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space, as well as some of your CPU and memory. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
<br />
== Basic usage ==<br />
<br />
The Warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can run it using a virtual machine (simplest) or using Docker (slightly more complicated, but much less overhead than the VM).<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with a virtual machine ===<br />
<br />
You'll need:<br />
* The Warrior Appliance (size: 123MB, current version: 3.2), from one of the following locations:<br />
** [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/Ubuntu-Warrior/releases GitHub]<br />
** [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Archive Team]<br />
** [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ Syping Development (DE)]<br />
** [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013 Internet Archive] (outdated but still functional)<br />
* A virtualization application to run it, such as:<br />
** [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended, open source) <br />
** [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware Player] (may have some compatibility issues, free-gratis for personal use)<br />
<br />
==== VirtualBox ====<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox.<br />
# In VirtualBox, click <code>File > Import Appliance</code> and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
A [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nzD-QpmePE video demonstrating these steps] is available. (Note that the screen indicating that the Warrior has finished loading looks different than the one from when this video was made, but the steps are otherwise the same.)<br />
<br />
==== VMware Player ====<br />
Note that VMware Player may have some compatibility issues with running the Warrior image.<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VMware Player.<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Docker ===<br />
<br />
You'll need [https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/ Docker] (open source) and the Warrior Docker image.<br />
<br />
# Download Docker from the link above and install it.<br />
# Open your terminal. On Windows, you can use either Command Prompt (CMD) or PowerShell. On macOS and Linux you can use Terminal (Bash).<br />
# Use the following command to start the Warrior as well as Watchtower, which will automatically keep your Warrior updated: <pre>docker run --detach --name watchtower --restart=on-failure --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --interval 3600 && docker run --detach --name archiveteam-warrior --label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=on-failure --publish 8001:8001 atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre> Note that the current version of this command may not persist Warrior configuration (username, selected project, and item concurrency) across container/dependency updates unless they are [[/Docker environment variables|specified in environment variables]]. These types of updates typically only occur once every few months and are far less frequent than normal script updates, which happen inside the container without affecting the container configuration. (For a full explanation of this command, see items 3 and 4 [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker#Instructions_for_using_Docker_CLI_on_Windows.2C_macOS.2C_or_Linux|here]].)<br/>You may wish to protect the web configuration interface for your Warrior by setting a username and password for the web interface and by adding a rule to your firewall (such as [https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker#solving-ufw-and-docker-issues ufw]).<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/.<br />
<br />
=== Installing and running with Podman ===<br />
<br />
You'll need podman & systemd installed for this. This uses the same image as docker above, but uses podman instead of docker and replaces Watchtower with [https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-auto-update.1.html podman-auto-update]. A volume named `at-warrior-projects` is created with the persistent state used for the Warrior. As a result, restarts of the container/auto-updates preserve previous configuration.<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
podman create --name at-warrior --label=io.containers.autoupdate=registry --publish 8001:8001 --volume at-warrior-projects:/home/warrior/projects atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile<br />
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user<br />
podman generate systemd --new at-warrior >~/.config/systemd/user/at-warrior.service<br />
systemctl --user daemon-reload<br />
systemctl --user enable --now at-warrior.service<br />
systemctl --user enable --now podman-auto-update.timer<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
Many systems don't leave user processes running after logout by default, which causes the podman containers to stop when you log out. This can be mitigated by enabling ''lingering'':<br />
<pre><br />
sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
{{TOClimit|3}}<br />
<br />
== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
<br />
=== Why a virtual machine/container in the first place? ===<br />
<br />
The Warrior is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
<br />
* Graphical interface (virtual machine only)<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
* Can be configured to restart automatically after a system restart ([[#How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically?|see below]]).<br />
<br />
If you have suggestions for improving this system, [[#I_still_have_a_question.21|talk to us]].<br />
<br />
=== Can I use whatever internet access for the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
<br />
* Use a DNS server that issues correct responses. Pinging a nonexistent domain should never return any IP, it should return NXDOMAIN. As an example, before 2014 OpenDNS redirected requests for nonexistent domains to a search page with ads. This is not clean. Another example of an "unclean" DNS is [[wikipedia:CleanBrowsing|CleanBrowsing]] which aims to shield its users from fap material. The DNS should preferably not attempt to filter anything, not even phishing domains. 9.9.9.10 from [[wikipedia:Quad9|Quad9]] may be a good public DNS. 8.8.8.8 from Google should be unfiltered as well.<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages or otherwise scan/filter/change content. The practice is less common nowadays as most sites use [[wikipedia:HTTPS|SSL]] which complicates injection. Doesn't stop ''some'' parties from trying anyway.<ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/gogo-inflight-internet-is-intentionally-issuing-fake-ssl-certificates/|Gogo Inflight Internet is intentionally issuing fake SSL certificates }}</ref><br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No major censorship. If you believe your country implements major censorship, do not run a warrior. Examples are [[wikipedia:Internet censorship in China|China]] and [[wikipedia:Censorship in Turkey#Internet censorship|Turkey]]. What content may or may not be accessible is unpredictable in these countries, and requests may return a page that says "this website is blocked" which is unhelpful to archive. "Minor" censorship is far more common: where a small number of sites are blocked, the blocks are widely announced and blocks are not frequently implemented. For example, several countries have blocked [[wikipedia:The Pirate Bay|The Pirate Bay]] and a ruling from the European Commission requires European providers to block access to [[wikipedia:RT (TV network)|RT]] and [[wikipedia:Sputnik (news agency)|Sputnik]]. Another example of "minor" censorship is when access is blocked to sites you wouldn't want to archive in a million years, like those dedicated to hosting imagery of child abuse. While censorship is always a bad idea (and abusive sites should be shut down, not blocked), "minor" censorship ''typically'' won't (..or shouldn't) affect Warrior as the blocks are predictable. Obviously you won't be able to contribute to archiving sites that are blocked for you. When in any doubt, ask on IRC first.<br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe/public transport/store wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful. In addition, you may slow down the service for the people around you.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged. Servers may also be more likely to deploy a rate limit or serve a [[wikipedia:CAPTCHA|CAPTCHA]] page when using a VPN which is unhelpful to archive.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public unshared IP addresses if possible. If a single IP attempts to back up an entire site, it may result in that IP getting banned by the server. Also, if a server ''does'' ban an IP, we'd rather this ban only affects you and not everyone in your apartment building.<br />
<br />
=== I turned my Warrior off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
If you've killed your Warrior, then the work it was doing has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them.<br />
<br />
=== I closed my browser or tab with the Warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the Warrior. As long as the VM or Docker container is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
<br />
=== How can I shut down the Warrior without losing work? ===<br />
<br />
==== Recommended method ====<br />
<br />
Click the "Shut down" button on the left of the web interface. All the current tasks will still finish, but no new ones will be started. When a banner appears saying "There is no connection with the warrior", the Warrior has finished shutting down. (If you would rather use the command line than the web interface, [[#How_can_I_run_the_Warrior_headlessly_.28without_leaving_a_window_open.29.3F|see below]]).<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait (perhaps because a task is long-running), you can use VirtualBox's <code>Machine > Pause</code> or VMware's <code>VM > Pause</code> to suspend the Warrior VM, then resume it when you are ready to work again. Note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the tracker will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it—but suspending in order to reboot your computer or reset your internet connection should be perfectly fine.<br />
<br />
==== Suspend/resume with the Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If you don't want to wait, you're out of luck; Docker does not have a feature for suspending containers. <br />
<br />
=== How much disk space will the Warrior use? ===<br />
<br />
Short answer: it depends on the project. The virtual machine has a hard limit of 60GB disk usage, but the Docker container does not have such a limit. However, it is highly unlikely that any project would use more than 60GB of disk space at any time.<br />
<br />
Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB, but Docker has no hard limit. Any unused virtual machine or Docker container disk space is not used on the host computer. You may configure the virtual machine to run on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
<br />
=== How can I log into the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. <br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, press ALT+F4 to switch to virtual console number 4. VirtualBox users may need to press the host key, RIGHT_CONTROL, to enter capture mode before pressing ALT+F4. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1, 2, and 3 are reserved for the warrior. Switching to a new virtual console will show a login shell. You can login using the username <code>root</code> and the password <code>archiveteam</code>.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
With the Warrior running, open your terminal and run <code>sudo docker exec -t -i archiveteam-warrior /bin/bash</code>. Replace 'archiveteam-warrior' with the name of your Warrior container if necessary.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run multiple Warriors at the same time? ===<br />
<br />
This usually isn't necessary; if you want to increase your work on a project, you can increase the number of items your Warrior will work on at the same time. In the web interface, go to the "Your settings" tab, tick the "Show advanced settings" box, and edit the "Concurrent items" field. The maximum concurrency is 6.<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machines ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
<br />
In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up <code>Settings > Network > Adapter 1 > Port Forwarding</code>. You need to adjust the host port. For example, setting your table to <code>TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001</code> will map port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
<br />
VMware installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter</code>) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
<br />
Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
<br />
==== Docker containers ====<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the run command used to create the containers.<br />
<br />
First, each container needs a unique name, so you will need to replace the name specified with the <code>--name</code> parameter with something unique.<br />
<br />
Second, you will need to specify a unique port to access the web interface of each container. You can do this by changing the number before the <code>:</code> in the <code>--publish</code> parameter to any available unique port number equal to or greater than 1024. (Additional options for specifying ports are explained in the [https://docs.docker.com/network/links/#connect-using-network-port-mapping Docker documentation].)<br />
<br />
You may also want to reuse your configuration between different Docker containers; you can do this by specifying the same [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#using-environment-variables environment variables] or bindmounting the same <code>config.json</code> file across all of your containers. See the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile#readme Warrior Dockerfile README] for more details about this.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the Warrior headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
From the VirtualBox GUI, after opening the VM, click <code>Machine > Detach GUI</code>. You can then close the VirtualBox Manager window.<br />
<br />
For the VirtualBox CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>VBoxManage startvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --type headless</code> and shut it down with <code>VBoxManage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 acpipowerbutton</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
<br />
For the VMware CLI, you can start up the VM with <code>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</code> and shut it down with <code>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</code>. Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM; resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
The container does not have a GUI, and if run with <code>--detach</code> (as the instructions suggest), it will not occupy your terminal window either. It is therefore headless by default. You can start up the container with <code>docker start archiveteam-warrior</code> and shut it down with <code>docker kill --signal=SIGINT archiveteam-warrior</code>.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the Warrior to start up on boot and shut down automatically? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can set the VM up as a system service by following the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
If the container is run with <code>--restart=on-failure</code> (as the instructions suggest), Docker will automatically start it on boot.<br />
<br />
Additionally, you'll want to specify a project, e.g. <code>-e SELECTED_PROJECT=auto</code> and likely a nickname, e.g. <code>-e DOWNLOADER=MyCoolNickname</code>. See [[/Docker environment variables]] for more info.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --nic1 bridged<br />
VBoxManage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-3.2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMware installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I access the virtual machine from another device on my network? ===<br />
<br />
Full guide for VirtualBox users is found [https://gist.github.com/HeliosLHC/cf3264c8d65b4680474ac13bcc6d0384 here].<br />
<br />
=== What's new in version 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine? ===<br />
<br />
This update enables running newer projects, shortens startup times, enables viewing basic logs from the virtual machine console (press ALT+F2 for Warrior logs, press ALT+F3 for automatic updater logs, and press ALT+F1 to return to the splash screen), and has other minor improvements. Warriors versions 3.0 and 3.1 will automatically update themselves with the project compatibility improvements, but the other improvements require re-creating the VM with version 3.2 of the appliance.<br />
<br />
=== Are previous versions of the Warrior still supported? ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
Currently, versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 of the Warrior virtual machine are functional and supported, and are capable of automatically retrieving updated components as needed. Support for version 2 and prior of the Warrior virtual machine was discontinued around 2018 due to outdated SSL support.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
We always recommend using the latest version of the Warrior Docker image, as new and updated projects often require the updated components provided by newer Docker images. If you run the Docker container with Watchtower (as the instructions suggest), your Docker container will automatically be kept up-to-date.<br />
<br />
=== Can I run the Warrior on ARM or some other unusual architecture? ===<br />
No, currently we do not allow ARM (used on Raspberry Pi and M1 Macs) or other non-x86 architectures. This is because we have previously discovered questionable practices in the Wget archive-creating components and are not confident it runs under different endiannesses etc. If you still want to run it apparently [[Running Archive Team Projects with Docker|Docker]] can emulate x86_64.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of Warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current Archive Team project leads what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
<br />
Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
<br />
Archive Team volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavor of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
<br />
Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
<br />
The instructions for [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines.2FDocker_containers_at_the_same_time.3F|running multiple Warriors on one machine]] may be helpful. However, you should also consider [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]] rather than the Warrior; these have even less overhead and can be configured with greater concurrency.<br />
<br />
=== What are the alternatives to using the Warrior? ===<br />
<br />
One is [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|running Docker containers for individual projects]]. This is particularly useful if you want to deploy a large amount of computing power.<br />
<br />
Another is running individual projects directly. Check the source repository for the project you're interested in and follow the instructions for running without a Warrior in the README. This is particularly useful if you want to deploy on a machine where you don't have root.<br />
<br />
We generally recommend that people use the Warrior, because it is simple for non-technical users to set up and it requires no supervision. You should only use these alternatives if you are comfortable with Linux and prepared to manually intervene when projects begin and end.<br />
<br />
=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
<br />
That's just the warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the warrior. Those without the icon are running the project manually.<br />
<br />
[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
<br />
=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
<br />
The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
<br />
=== That’s awesome—can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
<br />
[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
<br />
=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
<br />
In order to ensure data accuracy, it is imperative that users contributing to Archive Team projects '''do not modify the project scripts'''. If you would like to propose improvements to be included in future official versions of/updates to project scripts or would like to use our code for non-Archive Team projects, check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
<br />
=== I still have a question! ===<br />
<br />
Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697/archiveteam-bs #archiveteam-bs] for general questions.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
<br />
=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
<br />
If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
<br />
You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
<br />
You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
<br />
To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
<br />
<!--=== I just imported the ova image and the warrior is stuck on "Preparing the data partition". ===<br />
<br />
This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
--><br />
=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
Make sure you invoked <code>docker run</code> with the option <code>--publish</code>. To access the web interface at http://localhost:X/, you must use <code>--publish X:8001</code>.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
<br />
This may manifest as the following error:<br />
<br />
<code><br />
Checking Internet<br />
wget: bad address 'warriorhq.archiveteam.org'<br />
Unable to access the Internet<br />
</code><br />
<br />
It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
<br />
If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
<br />
Another option is to switch to "Host bridge" under settings of the network adapter. If you do this, you won't be able to connect to 127.0.0.1, instead use the first IP in the list below (without the /32, with :8001 at the end).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
<br />
This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
<br />
* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
<br />
(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
<br />
If you like, you can switch to another [[Current_Projects#Warrior-based_projects|project]] with less load.<br />
<br />
=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the Warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work. This error can also occur if the project is paused, though that isn't as common.<br />
<br />
=== I'm running a project manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
<br />
This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
<br />
If you are running the scripts using Docker, we recommend using Watchtower to check for updates every hour, downloading and installing them when necessary. See the setup instructions in [[Running_Archive_Team_Projects_with_Docker|Running Archive Team Projects with Docker]] for more details.<br />
<br />
If you are not running the scripts using the provided Docker images, try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
<br />
=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
<br />
If those messages are saying <code>max connections reached -- try again later</code>, then everything is fine and the file will be uploaded eventually.<br />
<br />
If the above error persists for hours (for the same item), or if the error message says something else, then something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
<br />
=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
<br />
The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
<br />
=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
<br />
==== Virtual machine ====<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
<br />
This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
<br />
<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3.2 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
<br />
For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
<br />
On VMware (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open <code>Settings > Hardware > Virtual Network Adapter > Advanced</code>. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
<br />
==== Docker container ====<br />
<br />
You're out of luck; Docker has no feature for limiting bandwidth.<br />
<br />
=== The Warrior virtual machine is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
<br />
Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
<br />
* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the VirtualBox CLI to compact the disk. First, shut down the VM. Then, open a terminal and navigate to the folder where the hard-disk VDI file is stored. Finally, run <code>VBoxManage modifymedium --compact archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code>, replacing <code>archiveteam-warrior-v3.2-20210306-disk001.vdi</code> with the name of the VDI file in use by the Warrior VM. See the [https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-modifymedium VirtualBox documentation] for more details and additional steps to help achieve a better result.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
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This issue should not affect Docker containers.<br />
<br />
=== My Warrior crashed, or I had to hard-stop it, and I don't think there's time to retry the tasks. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the project [[Archiveteam:IRC|IRC]] channel, including for stops due to system failures and power outages as well as hard-kills. Do not attempt to start or restart the affected containers. If time is indeed a concern, we can help you save or recover partial data from your Warrior.<br />
<br />
(The same applies if your Warrior is still running, but tasks are now stuck—especially if they're stuck because the project has reached its deadline and the target site is now gone. Most projects should handle this gracefully, but contact us if they do not.)<br />
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=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
<br />
Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the Warrior.<br />
<br />
=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the Warrior yet? ===<br />
<br />
Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
<br />
=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
<br />
We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
<br />
=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
<br />
Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
<br />
We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
<br />
=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
<br />
If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
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== Projects ==<br />
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See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
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== Are you a coder? ==<br />
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Like the Warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Niconico<br />
| logo = Niconico_Official_Logo.png<br />
| image = Wwwnicovideojp-full.png<br />
| description = <br />
| URL = {{url|1=https://www.nicovideo.jp}}<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/niconico/ niconico]<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/niconico-grab niconico-grab]<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| irc = niconino<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_niconico}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Niconico''' ([http://www.nicovideo.jp/ http://www.nicovideo.jp/]), formerly known as '''Nico Nico Douga''' is a Japanese [[Video hosting|video sharing]] site similar to [[Youtube]] managed by Niwango, a subsidiary of Dwango. As of December 2014, Niconico is the ninth most visited site in Japan. It has a unique comment system where the comments are overlaid directly over the video, synced to a specific video playback time. The site is known for its anime related content and memes. Due to the limited server capacity, Niconico restricts access to the website to free users at peak times (7 p.m. to 2 a.m.) by forcing them to stream lower quality versions of videos or blocking access entirely to newly registered users. An English-language version was added on October 17, 2012, replacing the Niconico.com website, featuring a new player and translation tools allowing users to translate video descriptions into English or Chinese. An HTML5 player was trialled beginning in 2016 and made default across the site in 2017, replacing the old Flash player. From February 28, 2018 an account is no longer required to watch videos.<br />
<br />
Niconico formerly allowed upload of SWF videos; these are the videos whose ID begins with "nm" instead of "sm". A number of videos exploited this to implement strange gimmicks ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E6%AD%A2%E3%82%81%E3%81%A6%E3%82%82%E5%8B%95%E3%81%8F]). After April 2018, all SWFs were converted to MP4. ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/swf]) Whether the original SWF is still accessible or not is unclear.<br />
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Until December 2020, Nico Nico Pedia used a Flash-based Oekaki tool ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/お絵カキコ]). The drawing process of posted drawings (お絵カキコ Oekakiko) could be replayed.<br />
<br />
As of spring 2021, Niconico will begin deleting metadata and comments from deleted videos (which were previously visible to logged-in users).At the same time, the "past log," a feature that displays past comments that had been hidden due to restrictions on the number of comments that can be displayed, will also be discontinued with the renewal of the comment server, regardless of the availability of the video.<ref>{{url|http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/141893.html|【3/24投稿者向け追記・告知】ニコニコ動画のコメントサーバーリニューアルについて|ニコニコインフォ}}</ref> Most comments were archived (over 95%) and all metadata saved.<br />
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Forced 2-factor login on every login began in February 2022 (see [https://github.com/AlexAplin/nndownload/issues/118]).<br />
<br />
== Spinoff sites ==<br />
* [https://live.nicovideo.jp/ Nico Nico Live Broadcast] is a live streaming service.<br />
* [https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/ Nico Nico Seiga] is a site for posting illustrations and images.<br />
* [https://ch.nicovideo.jp/ Nico Nico Channel] can send out blog newsletters, etc.<br />
* [https://dic.nicovideo.jp/ Nico Nico Pedia] is an encyclopedia edited by users.<br />
* [https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/ Game Atsumaru] hosts user-uploaded RPG Maker games.<br />
* [https://commons.nicovideo.jp/ NicoNi-Commons] is a site that supports the creative activities of creators by providing video materials such as BGM and sound effects.<br />
* [https://news.nicovideo.jp/ Nico Nico News] is a news site that hosts several newspapers and original news.<br />
* [https://com.nicovideo.jp/ NicoNi-Community] is a community-building website.<br />
<br />
== Scripts ==<br />
* [http://osdn.jp/projects/nicovideo-dl/ nicovideo-dl] is a small command-line program (similar to youtube-dl) to download videos from www.nicovideo.jp. It is implemented in Python. It is platform-independent and should work on Unix/Windows/Mac.It seems to be unavailable now.<br />
* [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nicofox/ Nicofox] NicoFox is a Mozilla Firefox extension for video website Nico Nico Douga. It contains a Download Manager, which can download videos from the website with their comments. (Nicofox will '''burn in''' comments into the video file with no way to watch the saved video with comments disabled, if that feature is enabled. Not recommended for serious archival.)<br />
There are several other generic scripts and browser extension that can download videos from video sharing sites that will work with Niconico, but they can't download videos with the comments overlaid over the video.<br />
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As of 2021, yt-dlp has incorporated the Niconico improvements from [https://github.com/animelover1984/youtube-dl animelover1984/youtube-dl] and so can be used for archiving.<br />
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=== Recommended way to archive niconico videos using nicovideo-dl ===<br />
This method will require you to have an account registered on niconico. To get the highest quality video possible, you will need either need to buy a premium subscription (540 yen a month) or only download videos outside of the peak times (7pm - 2am JST). One way to tell if you're getting the higher quality download is that they usually have a .mp4 extension, whereas lower-quality downloads result in a .flv file.<br />
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<pre><br />
nicovideo-dl --username "YOUR-USERNAME" --password "YOUR-PASSWORD" --get-comment --raw-comment --title http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm20338084<br />
</pre><br />
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This will grab the video and the comment XML file. The XML file can be converted into an ASS subtitle file compatible with most video players using the [https://github.com/m13253/danmaku2ass danmaku2ass] script by m13253.<br />
<br />
=== Recommended way to archive niconico videos using yt-dlp ===<br />
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<pre><br />
yt-dlp --write-info-json --get-comments --write-sub --all-subs --write-thumbnail --username <USERNAME> --password <PASSWORD> https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21347640<br />
</pre><br />
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Explanation for the arguments:<br />
* "--write-info-json" creates a "filename.info.json" file that contains all metadata for the video.<br />
* "--get-comments" informs youtube-dl that it should download comment data, and stores it in the info.json file<br />
* "--write-sub --all-subs" converts the above comment/danmaku data into .ASS subtitle files, for all 3 comment regions (English, Japanese and Chinese)<br />
* "--write-thumbnail" writes the thumbnail file to disk<br />
<br />
If you are not opposed to editing the file container itself, then there are additional useful arguments:<br />
* "--add-metadata" embeds some metadata into the video file such that they show up in video players<br />
* "--embed-thumbnail --embed-subs" embed thumbnails and subtitle files into the video file respectively<br />
* "--remux mkv" remuxes the video into an MKV file, which is required for subtitles to be embedded and can handle more exotic Niconico stream formats than MP4. '''Does not work with some .swf file sources.'''<br />
<br />
Similar to the above method, with a free account or with no account at all, there is a time range every day where downloading high-quality versions of videos is not available. However there are some nuances when downloading the highest quality videos.<br />
<br />
If the video is sufficiently old enough (always prior to December 2016 and sometimes before June 2018), then the "smile_high" format is the highest quality as it is the ''source'' upload video. This format typically contains .swf, .flv or .mp4 files. Otherwise, the DMC formats are the highest quality. (smile_low is always the worst quality)<br />
<br />
An indepth discussion of Niconico format qualities can be found [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/pull/49#discussion_r571639488 here].<br />
<br />
yt-dlp tries to automatically determine the best quality via these rules and other quality factors such as bitrate, however if you wish to examine yourself you can pass "-F" as an option and see the format selection yourself. Here is the format selection for the example video:<br />
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<pre><br />
format code extension resolution note<br />
h264_360p_low-aac_64kbps mp4 640x360 DMC Low-Quality 364k , h264@ 300k, aac @ 64k<br />
h264_360p_low-aac_192kbps mp4 640x360 DMC Low-Quality 492k , h264@ 300k, aac @192k<br />
h264_360p-aac_64kbps mp4 640x360 DMC 360p 664k , h264@ 600k, aac @ 64k<br />
h264_360p-aac_192kbps mp4 640x360 DMC 360p 792k , h264@ 600k, aac @192k<br />
h264_480p-aac_64kbps mp4 854x480 DMC 480p 1664k , h264@1600k, aac @ 64k<br />
h264_480p-aac_192kbps mp4 854x480 DMC 480p 1792k , h264@1600k, aac @192k<br />
smile_high mp4 864x486 High quality smile video 3419k , mp4 container, h264@3226k, aac @189k, 94.59MiB (best)<br />
</pre><br />
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== Site reconnaissance ==<br />
"As of October 31, 2011, Niconico has over 23,690,000 registered users, 6,870,000 mobile users and 1,390,000 premium users." Since then the number of premium users peaked at around 2,560,000 in mid-2016, before declining. As of December 2019 the number of active premium users is about 1,660,000.<br />
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Video IDs appear to be sequential, although very low video IDs may be handled specially.<br />
<br />
== Nico Nico Douga ==<br />
A video sharing website and the core of the Nico Nico family.<br />
<br />
Comments flow from right-to-left, an iconic feature of the website and called danmaku (弾幕). Comments can use a scripting language ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/ニコスクリプト ニコスクリプト Nicoscript]). It was partially crippled in the 2020 transition away from Flash. Comment artisans ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/コメント職人 コメント職人]) can produce particularly artful and extravagant ASCII art comments. Comment filters can replace keywords. Video authors can set their own video comments (投稿者コメント) that do not move into archives.<br />
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Under each video is a "marketplace" ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/ニコニコ市場 ニコニコ市場 Nico Nico Ichiba]) where products from Amazon and the like can be attached by users, often facetiously.<br />
<br />
=== Overview of Video IDs ===<br />
A video ID is a number given to each video, consisting of a two-letter alphabetic string representing the video site where the video was posted or the content holder providing the video, and a unique sequential number unique to the video itself.<br />
In short, it is the http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/'''aa9999''' part of the video URL.<br />
The following is a list of the types of videos.<br />
===IDs of videos that can be posted by users ===<br />
* sm - SMILEVIDEO videos. Can be attached to almost any video.<br />
* nm - Videos posted with official Nico Nico Video editing software (such as Nico Nico Movie Maker).<br />
=== IDs of videos that could be posted in the past ===<br />
These things are not linked automatically. Containing the metadata of the video.<br />
* am - Videos uploaded to "AmebaVision", which was discontinued in October 2007, making it impossible to watch videos.<br />
* fz - Videos uploaded to "Photozo", discontinued in May 2008, but still available for viewing.<br />
* ut - A video uploaded to "Youtube". Cannot be viewed now.<br />
* dm - A video uploaded to "DailyMotion", which was used by niconico.com.<br />
=== Official Videos ===<br />
* ax - "avex" official<br />
* ca - "Cho! Animelo", "Nyoko Nyoko Video"<br />
* cd - (unknown)<br />
* cw - "Callawood Video"<br />
* fx - "MTV official", not supposed to be posted to SMILEVIDEO<br />
* ig - "i*gura video exit_nicochannel"<br />
* na - "Livedoor net animation"<br />
* om - "Otome"<br />
* sd - Basically, it's still used for development purposes by the management.<br />
* sk - "spike NicoNico Channel exit_nicochannel"<br />
* yk - "YuriChannel video"<br />
* yo - "Yoshi Yoshi video"<br />
* za - "NicoNicoNico Anime Channel"<br />
* zb - "NicoRadio&TV"<br />
* zc - "NicoAni News"<br />
* zd - "ai sp@ce"<br />
* ze - "Niji Audio Visual Room"<br />
* nl - NicoNico Live Broadcast<br />
* so - SmileOfficial. the distribution of dedicated identifiers for official videos such as the above has been discontinued, and all official video identifiers have been unified to this.<br />
If you watch official videos via NicoNico Channel, you will be assigned a different ID for the channel video, so you may not see these videos as rarely.<br />
<br />
== Blomaga ==<br />
{{url|https://ch.nicovideo.jp/portal/blomaga/|NicoNico Blomaga}} is NicoNico's blog platform. It was scheduled to shut down October 7, 2021<ref>{{url|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/|皆さまの残したい記事投票結果}}</ref> (and did go down then, but oddly enough seemingly at midnight Pacific time, instead of Japan time). A grab script was mostly written but never run; instead, a series of nico.ms links (see below) were generated and run through [[ArchiveBot]]. From IDs going to about 2 million, about 1.2 million were saved before the site shut down. The rest were run anyhow, in order to try to capture official (business account) blogs not included in the shutdown, on the grounds that these are probably going down soon anyhow.<br />
<br />
As of the time of writing, [https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=niconico a search of the ArchiveBot viewer for "niconico"] results in an accurate listing of jobs. As almost always, the easy way to access the data is through the Wayback Machine.<br />
<br />
=== Site Structure ===<br />
Blomaga is divided into blogs (i.e. users), which contain posts. Blogs are identified by an alphanumeric ID (distinct from a more customizable blog title), whereas posts are globally serially numbered, with the number generally prefixed by the string "ar". <nowiki>https://ch.nicovideo.jp/article/ar[number]</nowiki> and <nowiki>https://nico.ms/ar[number]</nowiki> seem to redirect to posts with that ID. More work is needed to determine correspondence between blogs and video channels, and whether this may serve as another means of discovery.<br />
<br />
== Nico Nico Seiga ==<br />
For hosting static artistic works, similar to Pixiv or Deviantart. Login is required to view works in full quality.<br />
<br />
Comments do not flow across the image.<br />
<br />
=== Nico Nico Shunga ===<br />
The R-15 corner of Seiga. けしからん性力図 is a user-created heatmap of where the most sexual part of the image is. ([https://nlab.itmedia.co.jp/nl/articles/1202/14/news102.html])<br />
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=== Nico Nico Manga ===<br />
([https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/manga/]) A corner of Seiga hosting both user-created (ユーザー作品) and commercial (公式作品) comics. Each comic can hold a maximum of 100 chapters. Login is required to view past the first page of a chapter.<br />
<br />
Chapters of commercial comics are usually available for free for one month, without geographic restriction, after which it is removed from the website.<br />
<br />
Danmaku comments flow from right-to-left over the image.<br />
<br />
== Nico Nico Pedia ==<br />
An encyclopedia website only editable by premium users. Users can attach oekaki drawings ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/お絵カキコ お絵カキコ oekakiko]) or chiptune MML music ([https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/ピコカキコ ピコカキコ pikokakiko]) to article comments. The latter is at risk of [[wikipedia:JASRAC|JASRAC]] copyright takedowns.<br />
<br />
Both used to be flash-based. See above.<br />
<br />
== NicoNi-Commons ==<br />
A commons website for content like free background music and 3D models. User ID numbers are different on Commons but still linked to a user's primary ID.<br />
<br />
== NicoNi-Community ==<br />
Videos, seiga illustrations, and livestreams can be registered with a community. Communities have textboards (掲示板) that are only accessible to members.<br />
<br />
Videos can be only accessible to members (https://vocadb.net/T/7446), example https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13929471.<br />
<br />
== Game Atsumaru ==<br />
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{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Game Atsumaru (ゲームアツマール)<br />
| logo = <br />
| image = <br />
| description = <br />
| URL = https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}}<br />
| archiving_type = ArchiveBot, other<br />
| data = {{job|3tt38940863qg137qhybq2xbe}}<br>{{job|bsx1a496u5w4cblcwmq5lyjq4}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
Game Atsumaru (ゲームアツマール) is Niconico's web game hosting website. Originally launched as RPG Atsumaru, it was the officially supported game upload platform for RPG Maker MV, and later added support for RPG Maker MZ and Akashic Engine. Since non-RPG games can be made using RPG Maker, the site was renamed Game Atsumaru in 2021.<br />
<br />
In 2021 support was added for RPG Maker 2000/2003 using EasyRPG as an interpreter.<br />
<br />
Danmaku comments are supported; they flow from right-to-left during the game.<br />
<br />
On 20 December 2022, it was announced that the Game Atsumaru platform would be shutting down on 28 June 2023.<ref>{{url|https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/183352.html|『ゲームアツマール』サービスの提供を終了をいたします|ニコニコインフォ}}</ref> Uploaders have been given the ability to download their games. A new game hosting platform Nico Nama Game (ニコ生ゲーム) is scheduled to be be launched on 19 April 2023, at which point uploads to Game Atsumaru will be stopped.<br />
<br />
=== Archiving status ===<br />
<br />
Game homepages are archived by [[ArchiveBot]].<br />
<br />
There's a repo at https://github.com/yts98/game-atsumaru-discovery to '''discover as many static resources as possible''':<br />
* Most of game frameworks lazily load resources, so staying on the page for a long time does not guarantee that all resources will be found. A difficult approach would be to categorize games by framework and then group them for static analysis.<br />
* Danmaku comments and scoreboards are event-triggered, so it's better to check for:<br />
** possible <code>sceneName</code> (strings customized by the game author, such as <code>__title</code>, <code>__gameover</code>, <code>map1</code>) to archive danmaku comments.<br />
** <code>boardId</code> (1~10 or 1~30) to archive scoreboards.<br />
* Without archiving all the dynamically loaded <code>data/[A-Za-z]+\.json</code> and <code>data/Map[0-9]{3}\.json</code>, over 5989 games made with RPG Maker MV and over 1332 games made with RPG Maker MZ would be '''completely unplayable'''.<br />
<br />
=== Site structure ===<br />
<br />
URLs are of the format <nowiki>https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/games/gm[number]</nowiki>, where gm[number] is the <code>gameId</code> (up to approximately 28500 as of 2022-12-20, up to 29754 as of 2023-04-19). nico.ms short links work, as in <nowiki>https://nico.ms/gm[number]</nowiki><br />
<br />
As of June 24, 2023, 9490 games are publicly listed, 21 of which must be paid channel members to play; others were unlisted, private, or removed.<br />
<br />
Unlisted games are of the format https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/games/gm29721?key=f45a1f70c172. They can be discovered by googling <code><nowiki>site:https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/games/ inurl:key</nowiki></code> or searching Wayback CDX. As of June 24, 2023, a total of 307 unlisted games have been found.<ref>https://transfer.archivete.am/iL1D7/key_valid.txt</ref><br />
<br />
=== Game loading mechanism ===<br />
<br />
A game is actually an HTML with some static resources (JavaScript, CSS, WASM, images, audio), but the actual URL of the game is not embedded in the aforementioned page.<br />
<br />
The [[ReactJS]] app will call the API method <code>createPlayTicketV2()</code> to get a '''ticket''' with a <code>gameUrl</code> in the format <code><nowiki>https://resource.game.nicovideo.jp/games/:gameId/:version/index.html</nowiki></code> and open a '''session''' that lasts 1800 seconds. If a client request game resources without a valid ticket, the server would simply respond with an HTTP 404.<br />
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<pre><br />
curl -X GET -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "X-Frontend-Id: 39" -H "X-Frontend-Version: 3.464.0" \<br />
-H "Origin: https://game.nicovideo.jp" -H "Referer: https://game.nicovideo.jp/" \<br />
"https://api.game.nicovideo.jp/v1/rpgtkool/games/gm9482/permission-info.json?sandbox=0"<br />
<br />
curl -X POST -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "X-Frontend-Id: 39" -H "X-Frontend-Version: 3.464.0" -H "X-Request-With: https://game.nicovideo.jp" \<br />
-H "Origin: https://game.nicovideo.jp" -H "Referer: https://game.nicovideo.jp/" -F "=" \<br />
-c "cookie.txt" "https://api.game.nicovideo.jp/v1/rpgtkool/games/gm9482/play-tickets.json?sandbox=0&wipAccessKey"<br />
<br />
curl -X GET -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "Referer: https://resource.game.nicovideo.jp/core/player/index.html?3f452cce70" \<br />
-b "cookie.txt" "https://resource.game.nicovideo.jp/games/gm9482/1147/index.html"<br />
</pre><br />
|}<br />
<br />
Unlisted games can only be accessed by appending a valid '''key''' to the URL:<br />
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curl -X GET -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "X-Frontend-Id: 39" -H "X-Frontend-Version: 3.464.0" \<br />
-H "Origin: https://game.nicovideo.jp" -H "Referer: https://game.nicovideo.jp/" \<br />
"https://api.game.nicovideo.jp/v1/rpgtkool/games/gm289/permission-info.json?sandbox=0&wipAccessKey=b0495694f39e"<br />
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curl -X POST -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "X-Frontend-Id: 39" -H "X-Frontend-Version: 3.464.0" -H "X-Request-With: https://game.nicovideo.jp" \<br />
-H "Origin: https://game.nicovideo.jp" -H "Referer: https://game.nicovideo.jp/" -F "=" \<br />
-c "cookie.txt" "https://api.game.nicovideo.jp/v1/rpgtkool/games/gm289/play-tickets.json?sandbox=0&wipAccessKey=b0495694f39e"<br />
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curl -X GET -A "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0" \<br />
-H "Referer: https://resource.game.nicovideo.jp/core/player/index.html?3f452cce70" \<br />
-b "cookie.txt" "https://resource.game.nicovideo.jp/games/gm289/12/index.html"<br />
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When <code>window.origin</code> is in the constant list <code>validOrigins</code>, the app loads the game player in the iframe, and further loads the <code>gameUrl</code> in the game player's iframe, providing an interactive API<ref>{{url|https://atsumaru.github.io/api-references/|ゲームアツマール APIリファレンス}}</ref> object <code>window.RPGAtsumaru</code> for the game.<br />
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== Vital signs ==<br />
Seems stable, though premium user counts are still declining. There was a scare in April 2020 when a clause relating to "service ending" was added to their Terms of Service, leading to rumours of the site potentially shutting down, but it turned out to be due to a change in legal requirements.<br />
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Activity is declining, its place in Japanese society being overtaken by YouTube.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{url|1=https://www.nicovideo.jp}}<br />
* {{wikipedia|Niconico}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://www.wysp.ws/|Wysp}}, an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* '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><br />
* July 12: [[Banciyuan|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community, is going to close.<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shuts down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, will shut down. All served images are currently watermarked with a shutdown notice.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp|Dwango JP News}} will be terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* <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>.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]] is to be fully terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, will 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, part of [[Niconico]], will 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 will launch in April.<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} to be migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, announced they're shutting down. {{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11uo91x/archive_request_egloos_korean_blogging_platform/|Reddit Post}} about the shutdown.<br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, announced they're shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, will close.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* 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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* May 8: Github Team Discussions will be 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://www.tianya.cn|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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/}} (粵韻流聲), a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
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| URL = [https://www.skyrock.com/blog/ Blogs - Skyrock.com]<br />
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Skyblog is a French blogging platform/social network hosted by the French radio station Skyrock. It announced on 16 June 2023<ref name="announcement">{{URL|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709138-ICI-T-LIBRE.html}}</ref> that 'to comply with legislation on personal data' it would shut down on 21 August 2023<ref>{{URL|https://static.skyrock.net/img/skyblog_eol.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://the-skyrock-team.skyrock.com/3356796874-posted-on-2023-06-22.html}}</ref>.<br />
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Anonymized data will supposedly be saved by the INA (French radio and television archive) and BNF (national library of France).<ref name="announcement" /> No provisions were made for exporting user data except some instructions on using general 'website downloading' software.<ref>{{URL|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709252-Comment-sauvegarder-ton-blog.html}}</ref><br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
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Blog IDs appear to be sequential, with a maximum of ~124M. Blogs can be enumerated at endpoints such as <code><nowiki>https://www.skyrock.com/common/r/skynautes/card/<id></nowiki></code>, which resolves to <code>https://<blog-name>.skyrock.com/profil/</code>. Each subdomain provides a <code>sitemap.xml</code> and <code>atom.xml</code>.<br />
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Individual posts are found at <code>https://<blog-name>.skyrock.com/<post-id>-<post-slug>.html</code>. Post IDs appear to be sequential and globally unique. Post slugs are not required; an incorrect or absent slug will redirect to the canonical URL as long as the blog name is correct.<br />
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There is a URL shortener at http://sk.mu/ ([http://sk.mu/a90soh3wEbti e.g.]), but slugs are random and at 12 alphanumeric characters impractical to brute-force.<br />
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There is [https://www.skyrock.com/developer/documentation/api/ an API].<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* 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><br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* August 21: {{URL|https://www.skyrock.com/|Skyrock}}, a French social network, will 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://www.wysp.ws/|Wysp}}, an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts 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><br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* '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><br />
* July 12: [[Banciyuan|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community, is going to close.<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shuts down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, will shut down. All served images are currently watermarked with a shutdown notice.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp|Dwango JP News}} will be terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* <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>.<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]] is to be fully terminated.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, will 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.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, part of [[Niconico]], will 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 will launch in April.<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} to be migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, announced they're shutting down. {{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11uo91x/archive_request_egloos_korean_blogging_platform/|Reddit Post}} about the shutdown.<br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, announced they're shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice is shutting down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, will close.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* <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.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* '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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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> <br />
* '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><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (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><br />
* (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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* 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><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <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><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<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> although on November 1 it 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><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</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 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>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></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "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><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: 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><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut 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><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* 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><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* "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><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* May 8: Github Team Discussions will be 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://www.tianya.cn|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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* 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><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* 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<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* 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}})<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* <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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* 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".<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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].<br />
* 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.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/}} (粵韻流聲), a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* 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>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* "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><br />
* 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>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* 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>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.'<br />
* 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]<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* 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/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{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><br />
** [[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.<br />
** {{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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* 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."<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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> <br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* 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><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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}}<br />
* 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><br />
* 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]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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<br />
* 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.)<br />
* 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><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* 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.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements 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"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. 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}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com 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!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* 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.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* 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.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* 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 [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ 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.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} 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."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, 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."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} 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.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* 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><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} 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.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* 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. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} 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: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' 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'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* 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.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', 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.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* 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'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', 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.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', 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.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, 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).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} 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 [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ 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.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} 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 {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* 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...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> 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" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> 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 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' 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.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* 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.) <s>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.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* 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.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* 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.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* 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 {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' 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.<br />
* 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: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* 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.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', 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 {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* 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.<br />
* 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.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* 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 {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. 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.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> 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.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} 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.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' 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.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* 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.<br />
* 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><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* 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!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|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?<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "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. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' 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.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', 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.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' 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.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> 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 {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' 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!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, 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.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|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.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' 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! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' 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. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> 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.<br />
** 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}}.)<br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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><br />
* 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. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (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 [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''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 [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
** 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><br />
* '''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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* <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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''{{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>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[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}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* '''{{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.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* {{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}}.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* {{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><br />
* {{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>.<br />
* '''[[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><br />
* [[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>.<br />
* '''{{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><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{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><br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* 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.<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[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)<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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=== Humorous ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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