I took over the Mystery Writers Forum in 2006 when the original owner realized she no longer had the time to run it after nine years. Since then, through a number of fits and stumbles, it’s been chugging along pretty steadily.

But most of the traffic these days comes from bots. There have only been five new threads this year and six posts, and I think those were all automated threads welcoming new members.

As much as I’ve enjoyed having the site around, it’s taking storage space on the server that I can’t really afford to give up, and I can’t see that anyone’s getting any real return from it.

The Mystery Writers Forum is closed.

I know the Wayback Machine has taken plenty of snapshots of the site, so the content won’t disappear forever. It makes me more than a little sad that things are going away, but MWF has been around in one form or another since 1997, and that’s one hell of a run on the internet.