LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
Velocio-
Will be gracious and suggest that they are maybe not trolly, just very impassioned. Don't think they have anything to gain from what they're saying and again, the points they make are not invalid, just insensitively delivered. But again @user159377 we get what you're saying yet you need to allow for the fact that everyone has a different risk appetite and this isn't a bad impetus to get LFGSS on a footing which is likely also to ensure its longevity should Dee ever lose the capacity to maintain it.
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I'm not a troll, but I've said my piece and I don't wish to outstay my welcome. I'll move on. I enjoyed the opportunity to write about my passion. Thank you. And thank you for running an independent forum for 16 years. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
youClown
user159377
I think you are completely out of order here and can't think why you are pushing this so hard. You speak from experience so know the effort and risk that goes into running an online community. You've spoken in great detail about the perils and pain that you have gone through. So Velocio has decided and has been pretty open that this legislation is the last straw and they are going to pack it in after 20+ years. Absolutely no-one begrudges them that decision and we are in fact all amazed that they have managed it for this long.
You, and others, may feel differently and decide to keep running your communities. Great for you. But why do you find it so hard to imagine that someone has had enough and wants to pack it in or, as suggested, possibly hand it over to others to bear the burden. Have some empathy mate.