Thread:BastionMonk/@comment-1187034-20160607081401/@comment-3148529-20160607183547

BastionMonk wrote: Geez, do you know why? I can not be because their fanbase isn't large enough. From what I've gathered, it's due to a number of reasons.

It seems Jurassic Outpost posted an article about a supposedly cancelled JW game that said it was coming back and people on JPL were skeptical since JO didn't quote any sources. This was in late May. A few staff people from JO came over and started lashing out at them for that and past grievances, and it all got out of hand and hostile pretty quick.

Add that to the fact that the main admin is pretty worn out after all these years and the attention needed for the site was draining his energy quite a bit...so the decision was made to close down the site in order to prevent any further fallout between parties.

A temporary forum has already appeared for members to reconvene once JPL fully shuts down, so the community will still exist. Just not the original website.

I hear that their encyclopedia and downloads will be archived, so they won't be lost forever.