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Jun
3
2009
1Some sad n
ews came in on Google Reader today. Shaun Lyon, the big cheese behind the successful Outpost Gallifrey, Doctor Who Forum and Gallifreyone conventions has decided to close the news and forum sites down for ever on 31st July 2009. This decision is bound to send fandom into a spin as DWF was simply the best place to go for Doctor Who news, even if you did have to wade though countless crappy arguments sometimes in order to get to the good stuff.
So where do we go now? I’m open to suggestions. So many of the other sites are just either so noisy or boring. There are rumours of the moderators of DWF spinning off their own forum called Gallifrey Base. I’m sure more news will come out about that very soon.
This news reminds me of when my favourite pub closed when I was a youth. A great big group of people used to use the same pub, you always knew where to find people (this was in the days before mobile phones). When it closed things were never quite the same, in order to meet up with same group of people you had to visit several different pubs in town. People still mourn the loss of that pub, I recently found a Facebook group dedicated to that very purpose.
Still, ears to the ground, if you hear of a good Doctor Who forum let me know…
Outpost Gallifrey and the Doctor Who Forum, the most popular Doctor Who fan website on the Internet, will be closing for good as of July 31, 2009. The announcement was made in the Forum and the Doctor Who News Page on June 2 by owner/operator Shaun Lyon, whose statement about the closure is below. The closure of the site has been planned for a couple of months.
Comment for Outpost Gallifrey and Doctor Who Forum to Close
Roger Robinson
June 4, 2009, 2:41 am
June 4, 2009, 2:41 am
I’m really going to miss Outpost Gallifrey. Especially the archive. I’ve basically used all those descriptions, details and reviews to learn about Doctor Who for years now. The layout is just about perfect and I’ve never found another site quite like it. I feel it’s the best Doctor Who reference guide one can find online. Guess now I’m going to have to break down and buy those seven volumes of About Time.