Original sentence: By the late 1990s, the message board forum at the site had developed into a thriving community with a large number of regular members and contributors worldwide.It also maintains a page at MySpace, and the MySpace message boards linked there are somewhat similar in form to the original Rolling Stone forum, though much broader in scope.Rolling Stone abruptly and without notice deleted the forum in May 2004.Rolling Stone has maintained a website for many years, with selected current articles, reviews, blogs, MP3s, and other features such as searchable and free encyclopedic articles about artists, with images and sometimes sound clips of their work
Edited sentence: By the late 1990s, the message board forum at the site had developed into a thriving community with a large number of loyal regular members and contributors worldwide.Immediately following the forum's deletion, an independent, unaffiliated spin-off message board community called Castaways was created.Rolling Stone abruptly and without notice deleted the forum in May 2004, stunning the online community, some of whom had been contributing and interacting in the forum and community for close to a decade.Rolling Stone also maintains a page at MySpace, and the MySpace message boards linked there are somewhat similar in form to the original Rolling Stone forum, though much broader in scope.Rolling Stone has maintained an Internet website for many years, with selected current articles, reviews, blogs, MP3s, and other features such as searchable and free encyclopedic articles about artists, with images and sometimes sound clips of their work.The small backwater community of only about 150 members still keeps many traditions of the original Rolling Stone message boards alive.There were thousands of voluminous threads with tomes on topics of all kinds.Through a grassroots email campaign, word of the forum quickly spread