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# OSM Forums - Next steps for the old forums

Hello everyone,

As many of you already know, forum.osm.org software is not maintaned or updated and there's been an **urgency for a long time on its retirement for the sake of data integrity and users security**.

[During the past 5 months](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/forum-migration-test-instance-forum-fluxbb-community-discourse/978) a few people has been trying to test a content migration from [the old OSM Forums](https://forum.openstreetmap.org/) into these ones.

Unfortunetly the process got delayed due the lack of time of the contributors leading the process.



In order to unblock this situtation, **by September 30th 2022, the old forums will become read-only** and communities will be supported to [create the existing spaces there in the new forums](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/about-the-new-category-requests-category/1001/).

The data migration from the old forums still is something that its desired to happen and will keep being evaluated/tested, but it will no longer block the much needed decomission of the old forums. 

Cheers.

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*(???) On behalf of the Operations Working Group & Forums Governance Team*