Hello everyone! 
I was going to write a long-winded, philosophical post about the origin of this forum, the importance (I think) it has to the typewriter community, and what I had hoped it would become. However, I’ll spare the TLDR intro and just get straight to the point:

Typewriter Talk will shut down and be removed from the internet on September 20, 2026. 

The company that owns this website and hosts the forum informed me that “we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our free forum service plan due to declining ad revenue, which had been funding our free service. As a result, we have (temporarily) added our Premium Forum Service Plan to your forum at no charge to you. However, you will either need to purchase another term of service, or your forum will be deactivated.”

The aforementioned service plan would cost USD$16 per month. (There’s a 10% discount if you pay for six-month blocks at a time.)

It's disappointing news, but not really a surprise. When I started this forum, I knew there was always going to be the risk of something like this happening, and I’m honestly surprised that it lasted for 13 years before it did.

The question now is, what happens next?

Of course there are options. We could try to find another free hosting site (but would lose all the post history here), we could somehow figure out a way to pay for the hosting here, or we could just resign ourselves to the end being nigh. 

I thought it best to open this subject to discussion and see what everyone thinks rather than just calling it a day.

Thanks, Uwe.