Cause?

[Centermass]

So, why did the old forum go down? Was that the result of the thread reaching 1K pages ?

[CPJ 2.0]

Because guns and ammo pulled the plug for unknown reasons. Other than they were assholes.

[Wambli Ska]

Yep, they just announced one day that it was being unplugged. No reasons given.

[breamfisher]

It's not just Guns and Ammo. The publishing company pulled the Fly Fishing Forum's plug about a year ago, and pulled the plug on Florida Sportsman Forum (which was much larger than G&A) at the same time as Guns and Ammo.

Edited to add: all the listed magazines are owned by Outdoor Sportsman Group.

[Jerm]

What Bream said. It really didn't have anything to do with us as a group, some suit just decided to pull the plug on their magazine forums. They probably said something about "shareholder value" when they did it too. Sadly, it should have been a profitable asset, but they declined to make it that way and completely neglected it.

[Wambli Ska]

What Bream said. It really didn't have anything to do with us as a group, some suit just decided to pull the plug on their magazine forums. They probably said something about "shareholder value" when they did it too. Sadly, it should have been a profitable asset, but they declined to make it that way and completely neglected it.

100% correct. A dinosaur that has never adapted profitably to the digital age. The place should have been a good mine as proven by other companies that run massively profitable forums.