Surfcaster.com finally closes shop

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Looked for it today, and it was gone. Found the cached version, and
clicked on the forums. It said "It's closed, so don't come f****** back!".
It had been a dead in the water site for about 3 years; I'm surprised
it took that long for it to go offline.

So the question is, does that fate await other forums too? The Reel-time freshwater forum, once very active, is now almost dead too. Is Facebook killing all of these old internet sites? Surfcaster was actuallly a pretty good site for several years, but people stopped posting about 3-4 years ago. I don't think that will happen here, as this site has an incredibly loyal and close knit following, but it gives you pause....