LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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@Gustav
I haven't said thanks @Velocio for your tireless work keeping this place alive. Keeping communities healthy is both an art and a science and you've done a great job of both...
I've been involved with other communities before but LFGSS was the first community that I've been involved that went from online to IRL. I can remember the first event I attended where I asked what someone's real name was and then inevitably what their forum name.
I remember fondly the many IRL events including track days, rides to the coast, bike polo, pedalo racing and also the way that lives were celebrated through weddings and funerals.
I've also find the place an invaluable hive mind for understanding issues and problems well beyond the world of velocipedes. We all come with our own blinkers on and this place has a way of taking them off with new knowledge or different points of view from the mundane to the profound...
Am hoping we find a way forward, but regardless of whether we do, I'll always remember fondly this world