Hello everyone. This forum is going to be shut down soon. 
To make a long story short, the ROI on this forum is exceedingly negative. The forum costs money to run (server costs, email tools for notifications, AI tools for moderation) and unfortunately the amount of usage this forum has received over the past year or so has been minimal, and at times non-existent. (other than the excessive spam)
I’ve decided that the only real option is to shut down the forum because it is just wasting money at this point and since the moderators are no longer active here it has become a chore to manage for me alone. I tried to keep it running with some AI tools doing moderation but as you might expect, it’s kind of a mess still. I will say that the AI tools were surprisingly helpful in some ways though because it dropped the spam from hundreds a day to hundreds a month but still I am just one person and I have a mountain of things to do that this forum can’t be at the top of the list.
Thank you to everyone who participated in this forum and I am happy to have you all in the community. I will save the data and the forum code and all of that and maybe some day I will be able to bring it pack in the future but for now… this is the signing off for me from the forum.
Note: I’ll probably leave this up for a week so people have time to see it but after that the whole forum will be taken down.