Who knows if BB.com will ever bring the forums back. I certainly hope so, but I'm not holding my breath. Shutting it down after 20 years without notice was a poor ending. The writing had been on the wall for a while. In any case, I took steps to preserve the user content of Misc., in case something unfortunate happened. The Misc. is one of the largest and, for better or worse, most influential forums on the Internet. It's part of Internet history.

Obnoxiousbrutes is not associated, endorsed, or connected with Bodybuilding.com in any manner. This forum is a greenfield project, rebuilt from scratch, sharing no code or assets from bodybuilding.com. Not all public user content was saved, but a significant portion is preserved (the exact depth of the archive is still unknown, even to me). Unfortunately, and partly due to technical limitations, no precautions were taken for other user data in sections outside the Misc. of the bodybuilding.com forums. If you have any public user content gathered from the old forums (including Misc.), please let me know.

For 20 years, Bodybuilding.com made the right choice by keeping the forums open and running. It’s clear they didn’t invest much effort in maintaining them in recent years, as they were plagued by spammers, technical difficulties and poor moderation. But 20 years is still 20 years. I believe a large, free, open forum like the Misc. needs to be community-governed, moderated, and kept technically up-to-date.

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LONG LIVE THE MISC.

Brooks here

huge if true

Nice bro