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Aren't you supposed to be cleaning up around here in preparation for when the PTB finally shut down the Durp?
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They won't close it. They'll sell it cheap. There's a bunch of small firms that are buying old and abandoned message boards, keeping the unpaid moderators and administrators, standardizing their software, and making money from a simple banner ad on each page. One old message board might not make much money from Adsense banners, but several hundred will.
The fallout won't be from the SDMB closing its doors. It'll be from the switch to XenForo 2 (which is a vast improvement over vulletin 3/4/5. I'll admit), and severing the last connection to its Cecil Adams / Ed Zotti legacy.