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[KerstinThoma]

Dear EPO team,

I can't understand the decision.

The forum is our only point of contact for problems.
Questions and problems with OPS or DocDB could often be found here. The EPO's answers are often helpful.

Often you can answer your questions with the help of all the answers here.

Please reconsider your decision.
The forum is very important!
It is important that the EPO product managers are informed when there are new forum entries.
It is important that EPO product managers share their information here with their customers.
If it is no longer technically possible to operate the forum via the EPO website, Discord could be used, for example.

If there are few posts from customers/users, it is a good sign that everything is going well.

Look at the numbers, almost 1500 times the problem with the wrong return headers has been viewed.

Thank you very much for considering the wishes of your users/customers,
Kerstin Thoma.