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Closing Down

HumberBoyHumberBoy Posts: 27
in Problem solving
Bye Bye everyone may be I will see some of you on another forum.
I wonder what Monty Don would say about this forum closing down.
Thanks BBC for taking our licence money and pulling another service
away from us.

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  • Dobbin26Dobbin26 Posts: 60
    Here, here, and the RHS are pulling most of their services in their app unless you pay. Unbelievable 
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Just to be clear @HumberBoy this forum and the magazine have nothing to do with the BBC nowadays. It's a contracted media company that produces both. Of course the BBC could choose another partner to outsource them to. 
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @Dobbin26 The RHS is a charity funded by membership fees, donations and enterprises such as plant sales.   The website and its services - listing all those plants and how to grow them - must be quite expensive to run so it's not unreasonable to charge for some.

    As for GW and this forum, the media company that publishes the magazine and runs the website and forum have clearly decided that the forum is not economically viable.  Nothing to do with the BBC.  
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  • david.entwistle33943david.entwistle33943 Posts: 3
    The USENET forum uk.rec.gardening is still going, although Google Groups have just ended support (perhaps a good thing in many ways). USENET is a bit old-school, started in 1980, but if you can figure it out, it does what you'd expect.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    My goodness, is it?!? That was one of the first places I used on my first ever day online. I am delighted to hear it's still going, I had no idea! 
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  • Karenchilton2000Karenchilton2000 Posts: 23
    Where is everyone going? I've enrolled with Gardening Forum this morning but not sure how busy it is over there.  In the meantime, I've squeezed in one final post in the hope someone has an answer for me in the next couple of days :(
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @Karenchilton2000 a lot of us have gone to   https://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/
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