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I am so sad to read this. Thank you to Igor, Hrvoje, Nigel and everyone else who was involved over the years in this forum 😟 I had been a silent reader for years and gained so much knowledge from this forum (especially from many posts from @Cerbera). I hope there is a way to preserve the forum as an archive, as others have already expressed as their wish too. However, I fully understand the cost factor and that you need to pull the plug at some point. I joined @HappyPolygon's Discord server (thanks for setting this up), but I also much prefer traditional forums when it comes to proper discussions and learning material. Slack, Discord, Teams... they're all geared towards real-time collaboration and discussion, but are no replacements for traditional forums. Call me old-fashioned, but I dislike how the internet has evolved in the communcation aspect. I guess I still have time this month to go through the forums and save out some valuable knowledge. So sad.

Taking advantage of forums last days to call community members for assistance regarding very product this community helped so much is, well... This kind of complacency or, shall I rather say disinterest from MAXON is quite telling. Corporate greed and blindness to value it provides is stunning. It is easy to brand yourself as not caring as Autodesk, you are almost all the way there. Once that happens there is no way back to regain trust. No wonder people are leaving for Blender or Houdini...

Blimey, what sad news, just logged in to get my latest C4D issue solved at the core as I usually do and find its all going away. Dunno what I will do now, the cafe and lately core has held my hand through my entire 3d journey and its not an underestimation to say it was my main source of learning in the early days. I think I watched all of Nigels tutorials as well as many others. Ive had hundreds of problems solved and often with multiple solutions from various super knowledgable and highly skilled members. Its always been my goto spot to stop me pulling my hair out when all my own stumbling efforts have failed. I also learned so much following other peoples issues and downloading and disecting all the different files as well as trying to solve a few myself. Its been a lot like having my own tech support that I could rely on when all else failed, 3D isn’t my primary gig so Im no expert and I hit the wall a lot, I dont really earn much from it but was happy to pay a fiver for the subs, 60 bucks a year aint much in the grand scheme of things. I will take this opportunity to offer a huge thank you to all the members that have helped me out over the years with problems both complex and also very simple. I was always surprised at how super skilled and talented people were happy to take time out from there own projects and work to help with what probably seemed quite simple issues to them, when they could be off building wonderful creations for themselves. Any billionaire C4D users out there to save the day ? Was great while it lasted, thanks everyone.

@Jeff H1 I think that does mean that if you create something you can't using Open Source Initiative which is organization. Because they sell you free product just like Blender Market doing. Blender isn't free because of it. It use money from selling other people plugins. So basically from users that use it. Paradox. They think like this - "you can use software for free but most probably you will buy some plugins from Blender Market like simple bevel node which is not included in our node system by default because we know that you will like to use it". Generally most of the great Blender features are paid. I thought the same about Maxon One reserved nodes especially from Rocket Lasso. But I'm very happy that they at least didn't do the same as "open" foundations. Anyway most of the materials are still reserved to Maxon One license. In my opinion it doesn't mean that you can't create scripts for free. Just do that in your own initiative. Nobody can prohibit you for share your own images, scripts created in software for free. You can always sell scripts or nodes using Gumroad for $1 😉

Ah very sad times indeed.. Im incredibly greatful to this place. The c4dcafe was a place i spent so much time in.. it's a shame that so much knowledge will evaporate.. but as many have said, hardly surprising. everyone wants instant chat answers.. discords, slacks etc.. Managing communities has only become more and more difficult i think in recent years, with bots, lazy people, people posting answers from ai.. spam.. etc.. It is very sad to see what the internet has become.. it had so much potential.. Well much love to you all, and thanks to everyone who tried to keep this place going. It was a Sisyphusian task. --- I did a quick search for forum hosting options and found this place.. my god the retro vibes just got to me.. Maybe it can be a place the c4d cafe / corec4d refugees.. the last c4d forum 😄 https://retroc4d.freeforums.net/ maybe it's a bit too pink.. ---