Chamber of Secrets Forums to close this Summer

SoulxxBond · March 2013

If you venture onto Chamber of Secrets forums, you'll find a very long message saying that the forum will be closing this summer, after its long run of 10+ years.

Been a member there since October of 2004. Was the first Harry Potter community I was ever a part of. First place I put my fan-fiction, and found that people actually loved it! Made some amazing friends, some rather close at one point or another. All the discussions were great, especially when it came to the new books or new movies coming out.

It is like saying goodbye to a friend.

Firefly · March 2013

Not sympathetic unfortunately.

They (and Mugglenet, which they belong to) very arrogantly rejected my petition to get Extended versions of the films. Deleted my post and banned my account for no reason whatsoever.

Richard · March 2013

Still depressing to know potter sites shutting down though

SoulxxBond · March 2013

Firefly said:
Not sympathetic unfortunately.

They (and Mugglenet, which they belong to) very arrogantly rejected my petition to get Extended versions of the films. Deleted my post and banned my account for no reason whatsoever.

... *blinks*

)

Sorry, but... such a dumb thing to be so bitter about. Petitions rarely work, especially stuff like that. Staff of both probably knew that, as did, well probably loads of people you tried to talk about it to.

And that staff there is not arrogant about anything. Difference of opinion, and your bitterness over such a reaction probably heightened your thoughts and emotions of it being arrogant. Ask any Psychology expert on that one.

Lord Stafford · March 2013

I actually have an account on COS. Known by the same name, but I've only ever posted once. Still, it is unfortunate to see another Potter site go.

Lord Stafford.

silverarrowgriffin · March 2013

I have an account that I never used but it's really depressing when HP sites shut down

chester · March 2013

Such a sad day for the fandom.

[Deleted User] · March 2013

Sad news. But HPF has always been a much better place and as long as it lives forever, I won't complain

chester · March 2013

HPF has always been the best HP forum. COS was too strictly and thereby not fun.

Isaiah · March 2013

Before I came here i was there, can't believe its shutting down.

Nick · March 2013

wow!!! never thought that this day would come for COS Forums. it really is the end of an era but im glad hpf is still here.

Lord Stafford · March 2013

HPF will remain, no doubt about it.

Lord Stafford.

[Deleted User] · March 2013

Should we expect more users coming here because of that?

Nick · March 2013

maybe. but maybe the reason there closing is because everyone on COS is not active anymore.

TheDoctor · March 2013

aaron · March 2013

Shouldn't be long before Mugglenet as a whole follows suit.

SoulxxBond · March 2013

aaron said:
Shouldn't be long before Mugglenet as a whole follows suit.

Yeah, but no one on the staff of Mugglenet actually run CoS forums... different entity, only affiliation as far as it is their official forums.

-sigh- HPF will be the only place I can really discuss Harry Potter after CoS closes, because I'm not really a member of any other HP forums, except perhaps one I hardly venture on. And this forum has turned into a general entertainment forum anyway. Something kind of sad about that.

It is definitely the end of a long and wonderful chapter in the Harry Potter era with the close of Chamber of Secrets forums.

[Deleted User] · March 2013

SoulxxBond said:

-sigh- HPF will be the only place I can really discuss Harry Potter after CoS closes, because I'm not really a member of any other HP forums, except perhaps one I hardly venture on. And this forum has turned into a general entertainment forum anyway. Something kind of sad about that.

Sad? I don't see anything sad about that. This place has always been more than a simple forum. We are a community that shares similar tastes and personalities. Maybe, that's the reason COS is closing and HPF is still alive, after all, if CoS wasn't such a closed minded place restricted to HP only, I doubt it would close. I'm more than happy to see that over here people are open to talk about everything. After all, I bet that most of us are not here only to discuss Harry Potter, but also to meet people and make friends. How can that be sad? I have no idea.

SoulxxBond · March 2013

Henrick said:

SoulxxBond said:

-sigh- HPF will be the only place I can really discuss Harry Potter after CoS closes, because I'm not really a member of any other HP forums, except perhaps one I hardly venture on. And this forum has turned into a general entertainment forum anyway. Something kind of sad about that.

Sad? I don't see anything sad about that. This place has always been more than a simple forum. We are a community that shares similar tastes and personalities. Maybe, that's the reason COS is closing and HPF is still alive, after all, if CoS wasn't such a closed minded place restricted to HP only, I doubt it would close. I'm more than happy to see that over here people are open to talk about everything. After all, I bet that most of us are not here only to discuss Harry Potter, but also to meet people and make friends. How can that be sad? I have no idea.

Dude when was the last time you were on Cos Forums... there is like 4 general Harry Potter sections there, with a few more for games and such.... and the rest is general topic. Restricted to HP how? 50-75% of it is general chat outside of HP.

phoenix1 · March 2013

I don't post there much, mainly about upcoming HP marathons and my calendars...I'll miss it though I've made a few friends there and pm them. Too bad they didn't loosen up some of their rules, it might have been better

TubbyToast · March 2013

These are dark times, there is no denying. Our fandom has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our members: We, ever your servants, will continue to defend your discussion and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Forum remains, strong.

Nick · March 2013

=D> well said @tubbytoast

phoenix1 · April 2013

I think they've already closed the COS Forums. I went to check something in a pm and the link to it in 'Discussions' is gone. :-? Has anyone else checked them today? They were there last night.

Richard · April 2013

If its not closed yet someone should invite the members that still go there to this site.

NumberEight · April 2013

Good riddance. It is over modded, debate is discouraged, warnings thrown out for trivial mattes, too immature to handle a public political forum, obvious favoritism, etc. It is perhaps the worst forum I've ever been a member of.

phoenix1 · April 2013

Richard said:
If its not closed yet someone should invite the members that still go there to this site.

That's one of the reasons I was going in there tonight. I needed to get the e-mail address for one of my friends and was going to give her the link for here. Plus I was going to post it on the calendar page over the next few months so people would know where to come if they still wanted the calendars. But... :-w somebody jumped the gun.

dobby83 · April 2013

CoS forums, Mugglecast, Pottercast..WHAT´S GOING ON THAT EVERYTHING IS ENDING?!

aaron · April 2013

dobby83 said:
CoS forums, Mugglecast, Pottercast..WHAT´S GOING ON THAT EVERYTHING IS ENDING?!

Sims and Spartz are finally figuring out that there's really no point in running their website anymore now that Potter is over. It won't generate revenue if there aren't all that many hits. They most likely have bigger and better things to achieve, and they've made that clear with Hypable.

Martin1 · April 2013

Honestly though, what the fuck could these podcasts talk about lmfao.

yonythemoony · April 2013

LMAO.

Nick · April 2013

Sir_Cadogan · April 2013

CoS never had the "soul" that our forum had. However, I did appreciate the regulated rules there - especially when some members here had huge signatures. :P

phoenix1 · April 2013

I did find a way into the COS Forum, after I did a Google search. They have thread to talk about the closing so I posted a link to here, so be on the look out in case anyone new shows up. If anyone is interested in checking things out there, you can find them here.

SoulxxBond · April 2013

phoenix1 said:
I did find a way into the COS Forum, after I did a Google search. They have thread to talk about the closing so I posted a link to here, so be on the look out in case anyone new shows up. If anyone is interested in checking things out there, you can find them here.

Don't see the link to this forum, and there is no need for a google search, the site is well known....

phoenix1 · April 2013

SoulxxBond said:

Don't see the link to this forum, and there is no need for a google search, the site is well known....

It's here. I go by brattyc there. If you've been to Mugglenet recently you will have seen that COS is no longer found in their 'Discussions' link, so there isn't any way in through them. :-??

SoulxxBond · April 2013

well i thought the URL cosforums.com is well known... huh, guess not, just weird for me... been going there every day for months now on end, so I got it memorized.

phoenix1 · April 2013

SoulxxBond said:
well i thought the URL cosforums.com is well known... huh, guess not, just weird for me... been going there every day for months now on end, so I got it memorized.

I always went in through Mugglenet, so I never looked at their url...but it doesn't matter now, I had e-mailed them to ask why they took it out of Discussions and I just got an answer...it had been accidentally deleted 8-|

SnapeTheBat · May 2013

Quick! We need to save everything from these forums we can!

Sorry I keep talking about the Family Guy ep.

Nick · May 2013

adam?

Chamber of Secrets Forums to close this Summer

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