thisisby.us Shutting Down

All readers of China business watch know that we mentioned thisisby.us as one of the buoyant online communities in the posts of How To Easily Join The Online Community and Online Communities Added.
But thisisby.us is shutting down. Today we get the news that thisisby.us will cease operation on February 1, 2009 .
Form its blog ,we know that “ We are very sad to announce that thisisby.us will discontinue operation on February 1, 2009. thisisby.us has thrived as a writing community since its launch in the Spring of 2006. We have seen over 50,000 posts by over 15,000 different writers, numerous (self-organized) meet-ups around the country, and dozens of features on some of the Internet's most popular websites.”
For the members of thisisby.us, it has created a simple way for writers to export their data (posts, comments, profile comments, etc.) to your personal computer. You can access this data at our export site.