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I received this by email this morning. Don't know much about this stuff, but does this mean they are shutting down this forum?


Enjin Website Builder Closure





Enjin was founded back in 2009, and our first product, the Enjin Website Builder, has served as a home to over 21 million gamers and over 500,000 unique websites worldwide over the past 14 years.
It played such a critical role in the success of Enjin as a business. If you joined us on this journey, we are indescribably grateful. Thank you.
As technology advanced, it became clear that without a major rewrite, it would be impossible to modernize the Enjin Website Builder. This rewrite would have forced website owners to, effectively, restart their entire website on the new framework.
Unfortunately, as a result of the shift in our focus as well as the overwhelming number of alternative solutions on the market, after 14 years of operating the Enjin Website Builder, it is with our deepest regrets to inform you all that we'll be shutting down the Enjin Website Builder on the 30th April, 2023.
This marks the end of an important chapter in Enjin's history, one that will be eternally cherished by all of us here. We wanted to express our utmost gratitude to everyone who ran a website, guild, clan, or business on our platform, and, equally, we'd like to thank the overwhelming support that we've received over the years from 21 million gamers.
As we truly believe we're breaking new ground in making blockchain techology that is sustainable and good for society, we'd love to invite you to see what we've been building. Until the 1st September 2023, you can claim your unique Enjin Website Builder Service Medal which is uniquely associated with your Enjin Website Builder User ID, 6583297. It's simple, all you have to do is scan the following QR code:








Scan or click the QR code to claim your unique NFT.





The Enjin Team will still be here - our guild is still growing, but our raid boss is different.
You can read the full announcement here

I got the e-mail, too. It sure looks like the forums will be shut down. We'll need to start looking for a new home. It may be possible to have all our posts imported to a new forum. I am mildly techie, so I will look into it...

I have never looked into what Engin really is. It's intended for building websites, with a focus on managing gaming communities. I guess we are just using the "forum" part of what is actually a much bigger package.

We could look around for an existing Wolves forum somewhere (realGM has one). Somebody created a tool for extracting all the forum data. Of course, once you have it, what do you do with it...

There are a bunch of hosting services for forums (goDaddy, etc) that offer some popular forum software (phpBB, etc). We could start a new one somewhere, and maybe even figure out a way to upload the extracted forum data.

Does anyone have any knowledge, experience or opinions with some of the options we could look at? I can figure out a lot of techie stuff, but I am pretty ignorant in the whole forum software arena. I can start playing around with some stuff, but would welcome any thoughts or opinions on the topic.

This link might be relevant.

Unfortunately, as a result of the shift in our focus as well as the overwhelming number of alternative solutions on the market, after 14 years of operating the Enjin Website Builder, it is with our deepest regrets to inform you all that we'll be shutting down the Enjin Website Builder on the 30th April, 2023 at 12:00 UTC.

All websites currently hosted on the Enjin Website Builder will continue to remain on the Ultimate Plan for free, as has been the case since the 30th April 2021, until the 30th April 2023. We hope that by providing everyone with sufficient notice, this allows you more than enough time to find alternative arrangements and begin migrating your website content and users.

https://www.enjin.com/mobile/forum/viewthread/m/10826/id/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder

Also: https://github.com/allquixotic/encuum

Camden wrote:This link might be relevant.

Unfortunately, as a result of the shift in our focus as well as the overwhelming number of alternative solutions on the market, after 14 years of operating the Enjin Website Builder, it is with our deepest regrets to inform you all that we'll be shutting down the Enjin Website Builder on the 30th April, 2023 at 12:00 UTC.

All websites currently hosted on the Enjin Website Builder will continue to remain on the Ultimate Plan for free, as has been the case since the 30th April 2021, until the 30th April 2023. We hope that by providing everyone with sufficient notice, this allows you more than enough time to find alternative arrangements and begin migrating your website content and users.

https://www.enjin.com/mobile/forum/viewthread/m/10826/id/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder

Also: https://github.com/allquixotic/encuum

Yup. That's the first stuff I saw that made me realize we might be able to keep our old posts. I worry that the extraction might require an admin privilege, which would be a JDVikes thing... And the new forum would have to support an upload of the old posts.

We should grab the old ESPN posts as well! (Joke...mooktakesahit)

You're all lying, you're just trying to ditch me! I'm not falling for this again.

I lost 80% of the twins board when we moved here. Ugh this pretty sad news on top of a shit day for me.

I got the same email as well. hmm

I got a different email from them.

It read... "You can stay. We like you."