Well, they aren't closing the forum until the end of the year, so that's plenty of time for people to scrape it.

Maybe I'm missing something, but to be fair I don't think it's right and safe to assume that a forum will be working forever.

I think it's good that they've announced it beforehand, instead of just making a sudden change and send everyone the middle finger (THAT would be a shit practice).

People should make a backup of the projects now and snapshot everything. I'm sure there are scripts that enable it with relatively low effort.

That's no good. Time to back up some of the resources I might need. Thanks for the heads-up!

Isn't this basically what Archive of Our Own was founded for? They may focus on fan fiction, but it seems like one could start a conversation with the Organization for Transformative Works to add another wing for this sort of content.

First RM2K.net, now this. What a shame. I hope people can manage to preserve stuff. Sadly I'm out of storage atm.

Wayback Machine archive - you're welcome.

Maybe they can be imported to the Fediverse

Always sad to see a forum die... you know it"s just gonna be replaced with a subreddit... that anyone who criticizes Israel can't post on