Dear all,

Since FVWM's inception, the primary way of communicating with each other about
the project was via its mailing list. In fact, that mailing list is still
active today.

In the early-to-mid 2000s, fvwm.lair.be (via theBlackDragon) created the
FvwmForums, which still exist today, albeit migrated from phpBB to Discourse.

The usage of the forums probably came around the 2010s, but since then the use
of the forums have been in decline. For the past few years since being on
Discourse, most of the activities undertaken there are toward spam and bot
mitigation.

Very few existing members or new members actually post to the forum, and those
that currently do seem to be using it in a very different way to what it was
intended, which is becoming irritating to support.

Added to which is the overhead of maintenance of the system in terms of
keeping the forums software updated and the underling OS.

I know there's a lot of potentially useful information on the forums, but the
majority of it is now mostly in the Wiki, and that's been the place we've been
pointing people to.

What I'd like to do is shut the forums down, and for any other community
questions or engagement, point people to the Discussions area of Github:

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/discussions

I'll be shutting the machine down very soon.

Thanks everyone!

Thomas

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