Here's what Trevor Kidd recently posted on twitter about the closing of the Wizards forums, edited only for formatting:
"I could hop onto all the forums having this discussion or I can say it here and let it disseminate. I'm choosing the former. Moving away from running our own forums doesn't mean we think longer conversations or fan sites/forums aren't good or necessary. They are both good & necessary. From what I'm seeing, they flourish and you enjoy them more when they are run/managed by fans.
"#DnD & RPGs in general are all about story telling & talking with friends. It makes sense that we want to share those stories. So, it's vital that we have places to share those experiences & stories, like forums & fansites. But it's not vital that #dnd run those.
"Closing our forums does not in any way lessen our interactions. We'll still be talking & lurking in your social media & fan sites. And the idea that forums are going away because #dnd &/or magic are doing poorly - that's ludicrous!
Both are doing very, very well.
"We'll still be talking with you here, and elsewhere. Enjoy your new forum homes and don't forget to migrate your treasured content!
"On the topic of losing forum content - it's tough, I agree. Once we knew we were going to close the forums, we also knew we weren't going to maintain the community site indefinitely, so we opted to pull the band-aid off quickly rather than let it linger.
"You have about a month and a half to save whatever you want from the forums, so the content isn't dying, but it is up to you to move it."
"I could hop onto all the forums having this discussion or I can say it here and let it disseminate. I'm choosing the former. Moving away from running our own forums doesn't mean we think longer conversations or fan sites/forums aren't good or necessary. They are both good & necessary. From what I'm seeing, they flourish and you enjoy them more when they are run/managed by fans.
"#DnD & RPGs in general are all about story telling & talking with friends. It makes sense that we want to share those stories. So, it's vital that we have places to share those experiences & stories, like forums & fansites. But it's not vital that #dnd run those.
"Closing our forums does not in any way lessen our interactions. We'll still be talking & lurking in your social media & fan sites. And the idea that forums are going away because #dnd &/or magic are doing poorly - that's ludicrous!
Both are doing very, very well."We'll still be talking with you here, and elsewhere. Enjoy your new forum homes and don't forget to migrate your treasured content!
"On the topic of losing forum content - it's tough, I agree. Once we knew we were going to close the forums, we also knew we weren't going to maintain the community site indefinitely, so we opted to pull the band-aid off quickly rather than let it linger.
"You have about a month and a half to save whatever you want from the forums, so the content isn't dying, but it is up to you to move it."
