I'm not happy about what's proposed, namely that it's closing at all (ain't I special?), but also the timeline and mechanism for "sundowning" the forum. In short, it's too quick and incomplete and I'm disappointed no one making decisions can see that.
Yes, I'm aware that there would be a lingering cost to keeping a closed forum running and searchable for another year or two, but I really can't overstate how much important content will be lost with your plans. This forum has fifteen years of threads on it, since it ported over most of the old Sims3.com forum too, and this isn't just a plea to satisfy my own nostalgia. Search engines across the board have gotten clogged with SEO-optimized nonsense to the point where forums, even ancient threads, are some of the last remaining resources. And make no mistake, The Sims across all titles has a lot of depth, scarcely-used features, and esoteric bugs. The three pillars for this franchise. This forum is the only website where some of this stuff is documented.
Give fans a chance not just to nominate threads for import, but also to submit them to the Wayback Machine, scrape forum posts, or otherwise preserve them.
The Sims Team
