There has to be a less destructive way than to simply delete the subreddit, perhaps put up a date that new post will be disallowed and links to other official Forums.
Then when posts are no longer allowed, leave a read only copy up for some time, then leave nothing but the links to other communities.
Re:Deleting the golang subreddit
by freehunter on Friday November 25, 2016 @02:54PM
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Why even disallow new posts? What's the point? It's not an official support forum, he shouldn't have the right to shut down a community site and bar people from using it.
Many people not be aware of the issue and the network effect would have those people stay, despite the most talented leaders of the Go community leaving.
It stops being a community it the non-experts are separated from the experts by inaction of the experts.
If someone really likes Reddit that much, let make another go language sub.
Literally, in that Google Groups conversation they said they wanted to delete everything and make it private so no one could ever use it again. That's insane.