@Burr:

There wasn't much interest in the site

What ?? Perhaps not as much interest as you would have liked, but definitely some interest. By now, we're an old community with a lengthy history, and it's a good thing that old-timers share their memories.
We definitely don't want to be like TI, where management changes jobs every so often and doesn't have much background and reflection on history !

so I figured why waste time and effort.

Making TI-Story private is wasting your time and effort, and wasting other people's time and effort as well. Making TI-Story private is disrespectful towards your contributors.

Yeah I think it should be remade public. Even though it isn't frequently updated, it still has a lot more of information about the TI community than anywhere else and maybe one day someone with more info will return and give it more updates. Eg we had Durk Kingma update the MaxCoderz page a few months ago and he wasn't in the community for 8 years.

If you absolutely want to close it I think you should make it in read-only mode or let someone else take over. That site is kinda like the Wikipedia of the TI community. Else you could let somebody wget all the site pages and files so he can re-host the archived content elsewhere or re-merge it back into TI-BASIC Developer where it might get extra traffic (especially lately with TI-BD sometimes getting close to 100 posts per day)

Yep. Personally I learned a lot of stuff from past sites too from it and even discovered ones I didn't know that existed before. It's also helpful if someone wanted to know a former URL to search in the Wayback Machine.

At least I'm glad it's not entirely deleted, though, so if he decides to bring it back up, he just have to un-hide it. And even if it was deleted, I wouldn't be surprised if Wikidot had an undelete feature that their staff can use to revert a wrong site deletion or something, like Invisionfree had (although with Invisionfree it can take up to 4 years to get your forum restored), because as soon as a site is deleted in its entirety, it triggers a backup, in case it was deleted by hackers.

Also I think ticalc.org accepting to put the site link on their front page along with the other major community sites (despite lacking news, programming discussions/doc/tutorials and archives) tells something.

Burr has put it back up

Phew I'm glad it wasn't killed for good.

I think one thing that might not have helped TI-Story's activity is splitting the site from TI-BASIC Developer. By being on TIBD, it got extra traffic from TIBD members and visitors. On the other hand, with so many pages being edited, it must have made the recent wiki changes page very both sites, since it showed both TIBD and TI-Story changes. Maybe both sites could share the same forums, though? (A big complain in the TI community in the past is how there were too many forums out there and it dilluted the community userbase).

Can't edit pages anymore (It seems membership of the site has been disabled, so no one is allowed to edit.)