Is there a way to change the formatting to be less scrolly and with fewer whitespace? It takes a lot more clicking to get to the bottom of the page vs. FW.
Am I the only one that still had to go and check for myself 
Hi Everyone,
It was a good run at FW! Lets make Fragile as great as FW!
H
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Well crap.
Does your reply improve the conversation in some way?
prolly not
It does seem links underneath the fatwallet domain are being redirected directly to ebates (sick) while straight links to fatwallet.com show the goodbye message. Giving both you guys and PWF a chance, hope one (or maybe both?) can recreate the community (weird thing to say for a bunch of relative strangers) that we have now lost.
Tim Stormās Final FW Post
Bingās cache is more recent than Google, if you didnāt see this earlier. #SemperFW He added a link to a post on his FB account āI can see that FatWallet had itās first death the day I sold the company. Today is the second death as it is buried.ā 
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It is already better than FW in terms of good information exchange and friendliness, IMHO.
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So sad, I actually saved a page of the very best of FW but itās all links only and I didnāt bother to actually download the content. Oh well.
Itās really astounding to me that there was apparently not enough value in FW to keep it alive.
- Incrementally driving cashback and signups to ebates (surely underestimated by some brilliant MBA)
- advertising revenue?
- No value for the brand and community to sell to another?
Something doesnāt add up with me for all this. Seems like a really bad business decision, though I guess thatās easy to say from the 1000 ft view.
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The content was saved, at least the FWF portion, and itās just waiting for some hosting details.
Awwww. 
I am genuinely sad that today was the final day of Fatwallet. I feel like a friend has died.
Even though FW gave us more warning about the impending closure than they might have done, I had to leave a lot of things un-read/un-copied-and-pasted/un-written because I just had too much going on these last couple of weeks, including three different middle-of-the-night ambulance call-outs and emergency room admissions (and an urgent follow-on surgery) for one elderly relative of mine (who has obviously been from pillar to post, and we are lucky that such good help has been there for him each and every time).
This is my first post on the FD site, so maybe youāve talked about the Internet Archive site in other threads (you probably have) ā
but for peopleās general information, below is the last Internet Archive snapshot (that I can find) of the main page of the Finance forum.
It was possibly captured around 7:25 am Monday (yesterday).
I remember that the forum was still running as normal about 6 hours later, around 1 or 2 pm on Monday, when I logged in for a minute and left my final FW comment, so the Internet Archive doesnāt have the very final picture of how the Finance forum main page looked when the plug was pulled, but itās close:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171009072538/https://www.fatwallet.com/forums/finance
Some threads there can be clicked on and are visible in full (even if they have multiple pages), but other threads just go to a blank page when clicked on.
You can navigate to other FW sub-forums by using the drop-down menu in the upper right. Most sub-forums appear to have been saved by the Internet Archive at slightly different times, though most look like their final capture was in the early hours of Monday.
I hadnāt been able to spend more than a few minutes on FW in the last couple of weeks, so Iām just clicking around now in the different forums in the Internet Archive, seeing what the final thread topics were.
I rarely went to the Off Topic subforum in the 12 or something years I was on FW - maybe once a year - but Iām looking there now (via the Internet Archive) out of curiosity about how that particularly tight-knit gang of hardcore FW folks have reacted in the last 2 weeks to the announcement of the FW shutdown - I expect theyāve been very vocal! ā¦and I have just been genuinely surprised to see that I was remembered/wondered about in a thread there last week:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171008075029/https://www.fatwallet.com/forums/off-topic/1587120
After the first post which mentioned me, I read the rest of the thread with some trepidation, hoping that no one was going to have an (opposing) bad word to say about me, which certainly someone could have! ā but I didnāt see any (at least in that thread - and I wonāt tempt fate by looking at any more threads tonight, ha!)
Well, gosh, thatās niceā¦ to have been remembered by someone, especially a FW commenter whom I didnāt personally know or interact with much over the years. It is an unexpectedly-nice way to bring to a close my membership/experiences with Fatwallet, on its last day - to be remembered and mentioned in an out-of-the-way thread that I randomly clicked on.
Itās kind of a spooky coincidence. In a good way.
Iām gonna make a screenshot of that. 
And now to get some sleepā¦
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I also am a FWF member and plan to use both this and PWP. I too am requesting my cashback from eBates and plan to just use Befrugal, unless another member can point me in a better direction. Thanks in advance!
You really have to use a cashback monitoring site: Cashbackholic, Cashbackwatch, Cashbackmonitor, or Evreward. But in my experience Iāve found TopCashback to have the highest rates overall where I shop. YMMV of course.
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Thank you for the prompt reply! I will look into these options and find which is best for my needs. Currently, Iām stuck trying to meet the $25 threshold to cashout on BeFrugal. I believe its $23 atm, but I could be wrong.
After they closed the Grocery Forum where I first learned the basics of couponing like getting items free and how to get paid to shop, I just went to lurk mode. I also learned the basics of AoR there although not mfr spending which I learned from FT.
We became FW refugees then and there were those who opened their own couponing sites to continue sharing the deals there.
I will always remember FW with fondness.
I have to change my morning routing of checking FW to this site now
Be careful with BeFrugal. Iāve had no issues with getting cash back on all of my smaller purchases, but the first time I make a big purchase through the site (wouldāve resulted in about $28 cash back), they suddenly say that I must not have followed the process correctly. Trust meā¦ a big purchase like that and Iām going to make damn sure Iām doing it correctly. Iāll even give both sides the benefit of the doubt and say that they didnāt intend to do something malicious, but if thatās the case then itās an unreliable service.
Thatās what discouraged me from keeping multiple accounts at various cashback portals. I donāt shop online often enough to meet thresholds within a reasonable amount of time. At one site, they started charging inactivity fees which ate away at my balance. I wasnāt going to continue using them just to stop that, as they were paying considerably less than most sites.
Iāve noticed that a site will be one of the top-paying ones in their early days, then slowly start slipping further down the list.
Oh, and donāt forget to check your credit card portals, like Discover Deals. Sometimes they donāt appear on the cashback comparison lists, but the offers might beat out the cashback portals occasionally.
With Rakuten having >$600,000,000,000 in revenue for 2016, Iām not surprised FW is gone. Itās not worth the time. This is a great example of how publicly traded companies serve investors, not customers (as theyāre goal is to return value to investors).
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