I'm starting a new topic while I still have the chance!
I was just experiencing a bit of denial, thinking it might just be a big joke and they're not really going to shut down these message boards.
A few years ago, YouTube announced that it would be shutting down after 10 years (or something). People went nuts, until they remembered that it was April Fool's day and it was all a joke. But they did it do convincingly! They said that they had asked people to submit their videos as part of a contest, and now the contest was over.
We're a couple of months early for April Fools, though.