On Drupal.org we have few forums which we don't want to delete, but neither do we want people creating new forum topics or replying to the old ones - see #231728: Users still using deprecated forums → .
A few things would be needed to do this smoothly:
1. A status for forum tids to state that they're locked
2. Mass updating of forum topics to comments read only when the parent forum is locked
3. Prevent posting of new forum topics when a forum is locked
4. When a forum topic is moved to a locked forum, it should be set to comments read only too
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It's likely this issue predates Contrib.social: some issue and comment data are missing.
Forum is approved for removal. See #1898812: [policy] Deprecate forum module for removal in Drupal 11 →
This is now Postponed. The status is set according to two policies. The Remove a core extension and move it to a contributed project → and the Extensions approved for removal → policies.
It will be moved to the contributed extension → once the Drupal 11 branch is open.
