User blog comment:Caysie98/THE LMBS ARE CLOSING/@comment-5705260-20170105011821

That's incredibly shocking. Though I don't use the MBs nor care largely for most of the users there, I kind of expected them to stay up forever, and simply become inactive down the track. I can't say I'll miss them, though. Everybody I'd want to talk to there is already here. And all the post I wanted to keep, I already have saved elsewhere. I am sad, though. The MBs helped shape who I am. They're obviously the channel that let me find LMBW, and although I think we can all agree wholeheartedly this place can be awful sometimes, there are certainly more people here I'm glad I met than people I'd rather not have met and I think it's been a net positive for me.

As for the future of the MBs community, keep in mind WA did say "In order to make way for the exciting features of the future we must occasionally retire older features," which could imply they'll have a new community hub of some sort. It seems a shame that they'd waste thousands of active, passionate fans like that.