We get a lot of questions about how we deal with inactive forums. In the past it’s been our approach to keep all forums created until they are removed by the forum owner. While this certainly makes us look good, it can create problems as we continue to grow. Not only do inactive forums take up valuable disk space, but they also extend the time it takes to make backups or install upgrades.

In an effort to improve performance for active forums, as of last month we started running inactivity audits. If your forum goes 60 days without a post, we will email you letting you know your forum is about to expire. You will have 7 days to make a post on your forum or it will be permanently removed from our system.

If you get this email and want to save your forum, simply make a post anywhere on your forum. Having said that, if you fail to do so and it’s removed after 7 days, we are unable to recover it.

Our active forums will be very pleased with this change as it will improve the level of speed and reliability you have come to love and expect.