LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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Yes, most likely.
Maybe, slim but possible chance.
Needs a strong leader to really step up and own it, to take on the personal risk and liability, to reduce that risk as much as possible, and engaged engineers to modify the code to reduce that risk, additionally needs that leader to align people on sustainable fund-raising.
This is possible, but no leader has yet stepped forward willing to take this on long-term.
So the "most likely" outcome remains the shutdown... the default should nothing change is that the platform that runs this and other forums shuts on March 16th, and LFGSS goes with it.
The default is death. I'm copacetic about this, everything has it's time, and this end is premature but perhaps it's just the time for it, if someone steps forward and proves there's a lot more life to live in this guise, then great... if it dies I'll celebrate the past, if it lives I'll celebrate it's future. The community will always survive, people are connected individually, via small local groups who are friends, and most loosely via Discord now... it may not have the same vibrancy, but it exists, and communities that exist remain wonderful things.