# Things I'd like to see when/if this message board says "Buh-bye" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 14, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040 "2025-08-14T16:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/41 "2025-08-15T16:45:39Z")
Perhaps not a metaphor with good omens considering this other current thread: > [@AOL is finally shutting down its dial-up internet service](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aol-is-finally-shutting-down-its-dial-up-internet-service/1022039): > > Is AOL dial-up like the “[Abe Vigoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-our-current-abe-vigodas-people-you-might-be-surprised-to-learn-are-still-alive/919985) of technologies”? Show of hands, who here is surprised to learn that was actually still around. My hand is raised. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/42 "2025-08-15T16:46:44Z")
The basic idea of Message Boards has been replaced by Reddit, Discord to some degree. Where message boards still exist, they’re basically integrated into product specific websites. We’re are a oddity in this day and age. But in the 2000s we were one of the larger MBs so it make some sense we’re still going. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/43 "2025-08-15T16:47:06Z")
Just so long as we’re not the McDLT of message boards. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/44 "2025-08-15T17:33:55Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I am not sure it would be appropriate to discuss a diaspora like that before it happens, or where we all would go. How would we know where to go ? It’ll be too late to discuss it _after_ it happens ! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/45 "2025-08-15T17:52:19Z")
There will be whispers and rumors and claims and tall tales, from those that were here and those who claim they were here…but proper tales grow in the telling, so for those of us that can say in truth “We were there”, know there really isn’t much difference in the long run between “this happened” and “I remember this happened”. -Mark Twain…or maybe Stan Lee…or maybe Isaac Asimov? I blame fuzzy memories. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/46 "2025-08-15T22:35:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Just so long as we’re not the McDLT of message boards. In fairness, the McDLT was the best burger they ever sold. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/47 "2025-08-15T22:40:59Z")
No fair-extremely low bar. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/48 "2025-08-15T22:43:33Z")
Maybe this has been addressed (I haven’t read all the posts) but if anyone would have information on the oldest revived zombie thread, that would be fun to see. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/49 "2025-08-16T00:18:01Z")
Would that be from beginning of thread to revival, or from last post previous to revival? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/50 "2025-08-16T00:35:46Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I would like, on the Last Thread Ever, everyone to post their photos. There used to be a Straight Dope Photo Gallery > [@MIA Posters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mia-posters/657421/26): > > Arnold Winkelried’s absence is unusual. He organized the [Straight Dope Photo Gallery](http://www.nouilles.info/index.html), which as you can see remains up, but he hasn’t posted any new photos sent to him for a very long time now. He does log in from time to time, the last occasion being April 16, but never posts. Odd. but that URL now returns an error message. The obvious practical alternative spot if this forum dies is a Reddit sub-reddit. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/51 "2025-08-16T01:32:34Z")
Last post to revival. Most revivals, with gaps of a year or more, would be an interesting statistic too. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2025, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/52 "2025-08-17T02:35:54Z")
The Wayback Machine has it… > **[Straight Dope Message Board Portrait Gallery](https://web.archive.org/web/20171208221324/http://www.nouilles.info/sdpix/index.html)** > > Straight Dope Message Board Portrait Gallery ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/53 "2025-08-23T18:21:26Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > The obvious practical alternative spot if this forum dies is a Reddit sub-reddit. When snopes pulled the plug without warning, some of us ended up in a sub-reddit, which ended up being a bridge to SDMB. On another message board, which was still using vBulletin, we did get a warning and 2 different boards got set up, both with Discourse. One fell to the wayside, and the surviving one is a shadow of the original. Changing both the location and the message board software was too much for a lot of people. Some went to reddit, some to Facebook, etc. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/54 "2025-10-15T13:55:47Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > In fairness, the McDLT was the best burger they ever sold. That distinction belongs to the Arch Deluxe! ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/55 "2025-10-16T17:37:02Z")
> [@DaveRaver](#): > > That distinction belongs to the Arch Deluxe! Was not a fan of the dijonnaise-style sauce and the bacon was too pepper-y for my taste. ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/56 "2025-11-17T23:41:18Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > We’re are a oddity in this day and age. But in the 2000s we were one of the larger MBs so it make some sense we’re still going. are there any MB - hitlists (no matter what year) where SD does mark? just to get a feeling for size … ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/57 "2025-11-19T09:03:01Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Where message boards still exist, they’re basically integrated into product specific websites. That has not been my experience at all. These days, I spend my online time at a dozen or so forums / message boards, this one included, but Reddit excluded, and none of them are product specific, if I understand what you mean by it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2025, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/58 "2025-11-19T18:46:48Z")
Might they be company related? ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/59 "2025-11-20T08:01:47Z")
Most are not. And those that are, feature discussion way beyond what the company deals in, so it’s irrelevant who’s providing the platform. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040/60 "2025-11-21T06:27:06Z")
Nothing current (that I know of), but [Big-Boards](https://web.archive.org/web/20060831192020/http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all) had it consistently in the top 100 for several years around 2005. > **[Forums Rankings - all software forums, all languages language, website...](https://web.archive.org/web/20060831192020/http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=all)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-id-like-to-see-when-if-this-message-board-says-buh-bye/1022040.md?page=4)