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They are losing cash on this, making it harder and harder to justify keeping it up.

This is a business decision, not a personal decision. This decision was made when weighing up the value we can provide to the community and the value we can generate as a business against the costs of that value. Although we'd love to be able to allow the forum to continue to run as-is under someone else's control, the costs associated with that mean it unfortunately is not viable. The forum loses money and, as you're aware from the previous ownership transfer, there's a lot of complexity in terms of transferring ownership of data. The decision we've made is the best we can come up with in terms of balancing the community needs (retaining access to a decade of Minecraft history) vs. the business need.

Even though they did sellout to Curse, it was still a great place to go for looking and posting things about Minecraft. (I honestly don’t want to switch to PMC just due to it ain’t nearly as much of a “forum”, but rather is a collection of just different things.) I will probably just drop off the face the forums now that this is achieving.

Had a great decade, may we try to have another great one!

It is not owned by Microsoft?