Farewell...

[i.h]

The problem is, hosting an archive website of a forum still costs someone money, both for the hosting provider [on a monthly or annual basis] and the regular domain fee once a year. So while Rob will be archiving this site, it’s still going to cost him money to keep it in its archived state. Eventually, the site will vanish when he chooses to stop paying the hosting and domain bills, and then the data is lost anyway, other than via the wayback machine, which may or may not capture everything.

Point is, there's freedom and choice in all of this. If Rob were to find that the bills were excessive (and as a static archive with lower usage it might not be) then he can export the data and offer it to a future forum, he could upload it himself to archive.org or have it crawl the website, etc. There are options that discord does not have, and probably won't because long running discussion forums were not what it was designed for.