LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
-
Reads less like a takeover and more like a new forum with a similar name. The later doesn't really need anyone's blessing. If they start something new, promote it and it gets critical mass it happens but it isn't the same
Also this... if it's just a "stand up an existing piece of forum software", well... it doesn't get anyone out of the coverage of the OSA, and go ahead and start using whatever you feel. This one is Simple Machines Forum, and in the bottom it says "Powered by ForoConnect" which only has 2 hits on Google... both are the sample site he's showing us.
It would be a jump in a total unknown, with an unknown leader, and unknown motivations of that leader... but hey, that's no worse than creating a Facebook group and attempting to build a successor there.
That choice doesn't need my blessing, which is fine as I won't give it.
Velocio
Reads less like a takeover and more like a new forum with a similar name. The later doesn't really need anyone's blessing. If they start something new, promote it and it gets critical mass it happens but it isn't the same.