Duolingo forum closure

There has been an announcement that Duolingo will be closing its forums on March 22nd. Sentence discussions will remain open, but everything else will be removed.

This doesn't surprise me at all. The Duolingo forums have a huge issue with spam, and the volunteer moderation team has difficulty keeping on top of it. It's kind of a cesspit, really.

Since it seems like everything will be removed (rather than marked read-only) and won't be accessible after it closes, I guess I'll have to copy over some reference posts. The previous head of the Norwegian course posted some very helpful tips/explanations/resources, and I'll want to have them at hand.

It's too bad that Duolingo has been slowly removing every part of the site where users can interact with each other. I remember that at one point you could comment on your friends' progress - I never used that feature much, but I appreciated that it was there. As for the forums, for quite a while now they've mainly served as a resource repository (interspersed by a lot of spam), as well as a place to hear about course announcements in advance. Conversational language practice was discouraged, though.

Anyway. It's been a long time coming. I'll have to make a note to find time this weekend to copy/save the few posts that I need.