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I feared this day would come. This is really sad to hear, but not unexpected if I'm honest. I'm not good at this stuff, but I still want to try: Thank you to everyone who has been running this forum in some form or another, be it via moderation or paying the servers out of their own pockets. Thank you for the invaluable help on the many questions over the years, as dumb as they sometimes maybe were. I would NOT be in the same position as I am right now if it wasn't for this forum. Not even close. And I am sure I am not the only one with this experience. This forum always was a positive energy in my life and I am sad to see it go. I came back here regularly even when I switched to Blender for two years, that should tell you everything you need to know about this community. The internet as we know it is unfortunately changing, and has been for years. And it is not for the better. Corporate got it's greedy grip around it at this point, and way too tightly. Everything is centralized now. Giant tech companies are able to build userbases with free access to their services while bleeding out competition, until they suddenly remove free tiers and / or increase pricing after years and years of running on a loss. This will happen to all these AI tools too, the moment investor money dries up (and it's already drying up, after the devastating news about AI investments recently). Comparatively small ventures like this forum are simply not able to do that, and I fear the time of forums in general is just over. They were already down years ago, and then Discord arrived started kicking the corpse. How ANYONE can think Discord is a legit replacement for old-style forums really has no idea what they're getting into. Just to make it clear, I think creating a Core4D Discord just to keep in contact with each other is a really cool idea that I support. So I'm not specifically talking about the people here with this post. But 10-15 years from now people will mourn "the great loss of information" because Discord WILL shut down / restrict access at some point and all that knowledge collected on these Discord servers will vanish. Not to mention the many people we will simply "lose in translation", especially probably many of the old guard how simply can't be bothered to switch to yet another platform. Discord servers can't really be found via Search Engines either. I'm not even sure Discord is even going to make it another 10 years, judging by how much it has already been enshittifed in the last year. As far as I know, they're prepping to go public. We all know what that means in the long term.

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