I can not speak for other languages … and apart from any technical aspects - I would heavily vote for keeping the very valuable content of the German language. Dumping or “archiving” it to place no longer generating search results in the most recent replacement of the forum would lead to restart discussions solved and agreed years ago.
Furthermore … discussing the topic outside the active language forums excludes many valuable voices from a discussion driven in isolation - not visible to them.
Thanks to Simon Poole to bring the topic up again in the German forum!
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tux67