TEAMS.gg switched off after six years. Here is what happened, whether it is coming back, and the fastest replacement for finding a squad tonight.
teams.gg is closed. Not down for maintenance, not moving domains — switched off. If you just typed the address and got a goodbye note, that is the whole story: after six years and around 1.5 million connection requests, the team called it.
Their own words on the front page: "Since 2023, we've experimented with ads and subscriptions to keep TEAMS alive. Unfortunately, these efforts haven't been enough to cover the costs."
Nothing dramatic. It ran out of money, the way almost every LFG site eventually does.
Here is the trap, and it is worth understanding because it tells you what to avoid next: a post board is only useful when it is busy. Busy costs money — ads, SEO, someone keeping the spam out. And the people it serves are teenagers and twenty-somethings looking for a Valorant duo, which is the single hardest audience on the internet to charge a subscription. Ads do not cover it. Subscriptions do not sell. The board thins out, the last few posts sit unanswered, and one morning it is gone.
There is no sign of it. No "we'll be back", no new domain, no migration notice — just the goodbye page and a GLHF. Treat it as permanent; if it does return, you have lost nothing by having somewhere else to play in the meantime.
Credit where it is due, because it matters for picking a replacement. It was simple. You wrote what you played, your rank, what you wanted, and people answered. No algorithm, no swiping, no personality quiz. For finding a long-term team rather than a game right now, that format genuinely worked.
What it could never fix is the waiting. A post is a message to the future: you write it, then you refresh, then you go do something else, then you come back to two replies from people who are now offline. Every board has that problem. It is why the category keeps dying.
Use a live board instead of a post board. On AnySquad everything on screen is open right now — game, mode, language, mic or no mic, and how many slots are left. You are not writing anything and waiting for an answer. You click join and you are in the lobby with the host. 170+ games, free, and the whole board is readable without an account.
You do not need a site at all — you need your #lfg channel to stop being a graveyard. The AnySquad bot puts a panel in it that members press to create a lobby, opens a voice channel for each squad, and deletes that channel when everyone leaves. Turn on site listing and your lobbies are visible to players outside your server too, which is the difference between a five-slot group filling and sitting at 2/5 forever.
Honestly? Check the in-game group finder first. Destiny 2, FFXIV, WoW and a handful of others have one good enough that no third-party site adds anything. We would rather tell you that than sell you a signup you will not use.
There are a handful of other LFG services, and a couple of them are worth a look depending on what you play. Rather than list them here, we keep a comparison page with what each one does and whether it is still running — including the ones that have gone the same way teams.gg did.