Say Goodbye to the Fourums

[Petie]

Again, we are not "switching to Discord". Closing the forums and having a Discord server are two entirely separate, unrelated things. The forums are closing regardless. Discord existing is a convenience that means the community will still have a way to communicate that isn't emailing through the site but we are not closing the forums specifically to switch there. The other option will be to communicate via email directly through the site but that's obviously not as flexible so instead of complaining about it, maybe just be glad the Discord is there as an option.

[Aquaileron]

I keep looking back here, there is no new site date so it feels like this is a ticking time bomb without a clock lol
It's like knowing the sky is gonna expld but you don't really know when, just that it's soon

Man, all of our cool signatures will be gone 
Unless they stay there for archivial reasons?

The ticking site time bomb............

[Petie]

The forum will be left online in its entirety as a read-only archive. You'll even still be able to log in to see PMs. You just won't be able to send new PMs, post, etc. and new users will not be able to create accounts. I don't have a definitive date yet but I'm pretty sure it's going to wind up at https://archive.vg-resource.com when all is said and done.

[Shin FireyPaperMario]

Honestly, I think making the forums read-only in favor of discord is still a bad idea. Cuz we all know how discord managed to fuck up peoples' user expereince via updates over the years. Does any of y'all remembered discord announcing they're bastardizing usernames (after every discord user voiced their complaints, and yet discord staff ignored them & apply that bs anyway), adding an un-needed shitty bot that'll make AI art in all servers which you CAN'T turn off or disable, & downgrading the file uploads from 25 MB to 10 MB for free users being a good thing, I sure the hell don't.


And if none of y'all wanna take my warning, I hope y'all are fine with This upcoming feature ready to ruin users being a thing (currently it's being beta-tested in the UK & Austrailia, it'a BS cuz what if a user is actually over 16, but looks younger than 16, that'll result in an unfair permaban from the service) and many more bad updates to come.

[Dazz]

I don't think Petie can state for a 5th time that the forum is not being put into read-only in FAVOUR of Discord. They are completely unrelated to one another. We aren't closing the forum because of Discord, we are not continuing the run our Discord because we are closing the forum. We aren't in control of the forum software, just as we are not in control of Discord...

I really don't understand what you're requesting we do here; do we continue to operate a NEW forum, with all the vulnerabilities and lack of updates that we currently experience, completely from fresh, with the similar low engagement of this forum in its current state, and confusing between what is the archive and the new version? Because that sounds... awful. We have explained already that the software the forum runs on is not made by us - we aren't able to force them to keep working on it. We also cannot operate it independently with just Petie and I behind what is software made by dozens.

Again, we aren't closing the forum because of Discord.
We don't run a Discord server because we're closing the forum.
These are completely unrelated.

[Aquaileron]

And if none of y'all wanna take my warning....

It's not a replacement, please calm down 
The forums aren't being killed because of Discord, it's because the software is old and this thing runs like a potato

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Though I do have to wonder, are the little user profile things going away? Or will those stick around?

[Sir Teatei Moonlight]

Honestly, this is probably fine - if it's paired with strongly pushing the wiki as being the place to put everything of importance.

The biggest problem with Discord for our purposes is that it's not public for the internet to search, index, and archive information. The wiki is public, so this can be done properly. Sure it's not meant for discussion, but that's okay, because it doesn't need to be. Keep the discussion in Discord or IRC or what have you; keep the tools, guides, FAQs, "here's my workshop and showreel", etc on the wiki where everyone can see it (and collaboratively improve it).

[Petie]

The Discord is not meant to be an information repository - it is just intended for discussion. We'll be launching a new wiki after the new sites launch which is where the actual useful information is intended to go. This has always been the plan.