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AOL Message Board Closings Generates Frustration and Anger
In a previous post on the People Connection blog, AOL announced changes would be coming to the AOL Message boards. These changes included a new look for popular message boards, while the other boards would retire. On March 31st, the entire message board system was down. On April 1st, the old format boards re-appeared for a few moments then quickly vanished.
It seems AOL will be moving some message boards over to their blog network as seen with Fanhouse forums. Other message boards will be under AOL’s many themed portals such as the AOL Autos and AOL Travel and AOL Developer Forum.
The complete list of available boards can be found on the People Connection page but a majority of the boards are missing. The highly popular Rants and Raves, This and That, Computer and Electronics, and Religion boards, are interestingly missing. AOL has not released a statement whether those boards would return or if they have been retired.
Since many of the AOL Message Boards are down, users have huddled over to other websites. There’s currently an AOL thread on Yahoo message boards, while other members have started their own message boards on Yuku.com
If you got lost in the shuffle there is an active list of message boards run by AOL members maintained by Spiderswebhelp’s Website. Also another blog, Anti-AOL is covering this news story.
AOL Message Board Gathering Areas
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Do we in the UK belong to AOL ?,the USA have got their Message Boards back so why not us?.Has nobody in AOL got the curtesy to give us answers
Kelly is pretty much the only mouth piece between AOL and it’s users. They choose not to publicly disclose information and it ends up hurting everyone. The UK Message boards are closed, I don’t know why. AOL could be cutting costs by closing message boards because they may be spending too much money maintaining it. This theory could explain why they retired almost all the message boards on the U.S servers. All I can do is speculate but we may never get the real answers.
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