I only know about some US newspaper closing EU access and this guy's forum.

I'm sure we'll get a separate thread for each site that's closing, to emphasize how the (advertising) world is ending, one just needs to wait.

There's no advertising on the forum under discussion.

Well, drone.io?

I think it's just discourse.drone.io, the rest of the site will stay.

This is at least the 5th instance I've seen of a website announcing their closure due to GDPR on Hacker News. Most websites probably wouldn't announce it and given that a post about simply blocking all EU users got upvoted to the front page less than a week ago I doubt the idea of blocking all EU users isn't more prevalent.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/28/17295498/super-monday-nigh...

https://digiday.com/media/gdpr-mayhem-programmatic-ad-buying...

http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/25/media/gdpr-news-websites-la-...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/24/sites-blo...

Try doing some basic research before asking leading questions that you don't expect responses to.