Well, in the opinion of most, it was never really ready for public launch in the first place.
My advice regarding the Mises Community (video)
But there was a big push from the powers that be to have it. If you read through those threads you’ll see there was some conjecture that Jeff Tucker was just a bit too caught up in the technology and his own vision of how the site should be structured…and no input was requested. And when users did try to offer it, it seemed to be largely ignored.
Combine that with the terrible setup and a seemingly unspoken need to have everything on Wordpress, and you don’t get off to a good start. It seemed like the idea was to have the community launch in sort of a beta stage and just encourage people to participate there and try it out, and improvements would continue to be made. But the background support never seemed to be there. But regardless, it became the main link from the main page over a year ago.
Some experienced users made it over there, but it was so buggy, a lot of the time people couldn’t even log in, and when they could, there wasn’t much activity to participate in anyway.
It seemed like a decent micro illustration in the flawed nature of central planning. It’s bad enough when the platform isn’t ready, but when maintenence and support is largely neglected on top of that, it’s pretty much doomed from the start.