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While they may possibly be replaced by something else in future, that does depend a lot on a variety of factors including cost and topic. Like some people will always prefer the kind of discussion that forums provide, in the same way that Usenet and IRC and mailing lists are still around, just not as popular. Then there's the small factor that the technology would have to be somewhat cheap to allow it to become taken up by many communities, and if it wasn't, those with less budget would have to stick with the alternatives. The other question is the future of vBulletin at that time...