# Gnutella Forums

> Gnutella Forums (www.gnutellaforums.com) is a community support archive for
> Gnutella-network P2P file-sharing clients - LimeWire, WireShare, FrostWire,
> BearShare, Phex, Shareaza, gtk-gnutella, Morpheus, and others. It holds roughly
> 87,000 threads and 342,000 posts spanning 2001 to the present: installation
> help, connection and download/upload troubleshooting, client development
> discussion, and P2P news for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Key facts:

- LimeWire was discontinued in October 2010 under a US federal court injunction.
  WireShare (a community fork of LimeWire) is the maintained successor most
  actively discussed here.
- The forum is a low-activity legacy archive; the historical threads are the
  primary value. Posts from new members require moderator approval.
- Thread URL pattern: https://www.gnutellaforums.com/{forum-slug}/{id}-{title}.html
- Thread pages include DiscussionForumPosting JSON-LD (title, author,
  datePublished, comment count, first-post snippet).

## Main sections

- [Forum index](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/): all forums
- [LimeWire + WireShare (cross-platform)](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewire-wireshare-cross-platform/): the main client support area
- [Connection problems](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/connection-problems/): firewall, router, and connectivity troubleshooting
- [Download/upload problems](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/download-upload-problems/): transfer troubleshooting
- [General Windows support](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/general-windows-support/)
- [Open discussion](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/open-discussion-topics/): community topics and P2P news

## Machine access

- [Sitemap index](https://www.gnutellaforums.com/sitemap.xml): all guest-visible
  forums and threads (~84,000 URLs), regenerated weekly
- Please crawl politely: this is a small single-server archive. robots.txt
  crawl-delay and rate limits apply.