As Uli wrote, the climbing.de forum was closed yesterday by its administrator due to misuse by some stupid users. I share some of Uli’s grief about the shutdown but no very much because I gave up on climbing.de quite some time ago for the same reasons Martin closed the forum.
The only climbing forum which is left is rockclimbing.com which nearly the opposite of climbing.de. There’s a ‘community’ sub-forum with very little moderation and heavy flaming going on and a lot of other forums where the strict terms of service are enforced. It might be sad, but on the average, the internet population is so damn stupid that moderation is the only way a open forum can operate…