LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

It was originally done by email in the few days when I was receiving hundreds of emails and notifications... so it got lost, I read it and thought "reply later", and then didn't, that happens.

I've replied, and will copy the core of the reply here:

I should've replied, but I will flat out reject your offer HighGear .

I am only considering a single option, and that's to hand it over to existing members of the LFGSS forum who are long-tenured and active members, on the basis that the forum in roughly the same shape continues to exist.

I will not sell the Microcosm platform, nor the communities or data therein, and nor would I move them in their current form to anyone who isn't a long-tenured member with aligned ethics... I will only gift it to the community itself, or shut it down and delete it.

That should also re-assure people here... I am not considering selling the forum or gifting it to any commercial entity. This is not a cash-in or sell-out.

And if a group does form to take over and has a leader, I will state roughly the requirements in a contract form: non-commercial, non-profit, respecting the privacy of users as much as is possible given reasonable constraints (that you may need technical measures to operate within the OSA).