Forum is having membership fee which is introduced because you pulled support, but if that is not true then please be straight forward about it. So, dear mr @DMcGavran, did you stop supporting this community which is de facto only Cinema 4D communtiy?
I am sure you are not working for free, right? Something has to pay for expenses, right? My small company has a dedicated server for way less traffic and space that this forum certainly has and it is 400$ per month. We also pay a considerable fee for security and spam defense. This is most likely just a small part of expense of the forum. dont get me wrong, i would love to see the forum completely open but seems that days when Maxon saw real value in community are gone. Subscriptions is all that matters, which, from business standpoint is perfectly valid but community and its knowledge base draws new subscribers, so it seems to me that Maxon is shooting itself in the leg. jsut my two cents.