**Concerns for my Forum being deleted**

[Wall3t]

Howdy;

ive been looking and doing research on Nabble.com as i dont know anything about what you could provide for me or what it can do to help with my website.

While looking i noticed that some users have had their forums deleted due to lack of activity. I am running a video game website and i need a forum i could embed, but its from an older video game so i dont expect it to be very busy or not at all.

I want to know if this was true? do forums get removed or deleted after a certain period of time/ or days of no activity? and if so what is the time period and what guarantee is their that i could rely on a nabble.com forum for long term use?

[GregChapman]

The first thing to say is that no Nabble forum gets deleted without warning the administrator by email.

Normally, the reason for the complaints you see on this forum about a deleted forum is because the administrator has not read the warning email perhaps because it gets treated as spam by his mail provider or because he used a temporary address  when setting up the forum which he doesn't read as a matter of course.

The warning email always provides a link to click on that resets the timer and removes the threat to delete the forum, so there is never a good reason for losing a forum.

Further, it is very easy to take a backup at any point (Options > Download backup). Should, by some chance, you ever miss that warning email you can then post the backup here and the forum can be restored.

I am not sure of the exact rule for setting deletion, but I believe it is in the order of ninety days. It is not posting that counts only visits, so all it takes to avoid the threat of deletion is a visit to the forum and any of its sub-forums.

[Wall3t]

Oh ok I see what you mean now. thanks for the clarity! i was concerned it would in some effect my reliability with nabble, which i didnt want to think it would.

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:06:11 -0700
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To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: **Concerns for my Forum being deleted**

The first thing to say is that no Nabble forum gets deleted without warning the administrator by email.

Normally, the reason for the complaints you see on this forum about a deleted forum is because the administrator has not read the warning email perhaps because it gets treated as spam by his mail provider or because he used a temporary address  when setting up the forum which he doesn't read as a matter of course.

The warning email always provides a link to click on that resets the timer and removes the threat to delete the forum, so there is never a good reason for losing a forum.

Further, it is very easy to take a backup at any point (Options > Download backup). Should, by some chance, you ever miss that warning email you can then post the backup here and the forum can be restored.

I am not sure of the exact rule for setting deletion, but I believe it is in the order of ninety days. It is not posting that counts only visits, so all it takes to avoid the threat of deletion is a visit to the forum and any of its sub-forums.

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