Is valuebuddies going away?

[wonghw12]

I see the a message on the top

Due to the inactivity, the website will be decommissioned by the end of this month. Thanks.

[specuvestor]

Saw the same thing as well... or is it referring to some other ad website?

[wonghw12]

I wrote to valuebuddies but haven't gotten a reply yet.

Do the mods/admins know the owner of this site?

[specuvestor]

was thinking if we can have some sort of membership that helps to pay for the cost of hosting?

If not possible maybe there's some archive site we can access?

[wonghw12]

I can potentially host a forum if this really goes down.

Any moderators or admins can confirm if valuebuddies is really going away?

[weijian]

Dear all VBs,

Both CY09 and I (as Moderators) had written to cyclone, who is the administrator of the site but have not gotten any reply. Cyclone's online status shows that he has not logged in since Nov2025 but I suppose there is someone (or cyclone) who is monitoring it.

In response to specuvestor's doubt on whether there is some sort of ad, the banner has recently been modified (as below) and so indirectly (but unequivocally) confirm that VB.com will close down soon.

Due to the inactivity, the website will be decommissioned by the end of this month.
Thank you, Moderators and Valubuddies, whom I can't mention one by one.

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VB.com has been SOR (System of Record) for many of the Spore companies that I track/invest over the years. Similar to specuvestor, I am interested to continue or preserve the SOR in any form.

Can the administrator (cyclone or anyone else) or interested VBs private message me so that I can consolidate the necessary resources to see how we can save VB.com.

Please provide your personal contact number + avail resource/talent in the private message.

Moderator

[wonghw12]

I am interested if I can contribute.

I am concurrently saving the contents of the site into an archive which I can potentially host somewhere else. 

Dear all VBs,

Both CY09 and I (as Moderators) had written to cyclone, who is the administrator of the site but have not gotten any reply. Cyclone's online status shows that he has not logged in since Nov2025 but I suppose there is someone (or cyclone) who is monitoring it.

In response to specuvestor's doubt on whether there is some sort of ad, the banner has recently been modified (as below) and so indirectly (but unequivocally) confirm that VB.com will close down soon.

Due to the inactivity, the website will be decommissioned by the end of this month.
Thank you, Moderators and Valubuddies, whom I can't mention one by one.

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VB.com has been SOR (System of Record) for many of the Spore companies that I track/invest over the years. Similar to specuvestor, I am interested to continue or preserve the SOR in any form.

Can the administrator (cyclone or anyone else) or interested VBs private message me so that I can consolidate the necessary resources to see how we can save VB.com.

Please provide your personal contact number + avail resource/talent in the private message.

Moderator

[touzi]

VB.com has been SOR (System of Record) for many of the Spore companies that I track/invest over the years. Similar to specuvestor, I am interested to continue or preserve the SOR in any form.

Can the administrator (cyclone or anyone else) or interested VBs private message me so that I can consolidate the necessary resources to see how we can save VB.com.

Please provide your personal contact number + avail resource/talent in the private message.

Moderator

Hi weijian,

What kind of resource/talent do you need? 

I am not sure if I have anything to contribute, but I definitely hope to see valuebuddies.com continue. I have benefited from this community. 

BTW does anyone know how the activities are monitored? Is it by number of visitors, logins, posts or ?? I checked out VB almost daily, but usually without logging in since I seldom post. Other investment websites may have a lot more people posting, but in terms of quality I think VB is best.

[cyclone]

Sorry for the trouble.

Valuebuddies, please carry on posting. Thanks.

[CY09]

Thanks Cyclone for the update, will continue to read, post and moderate the posts of this forum