So the General and Politics section of the forums were closed without warning recently(at least I didn't see any warning). Politics arguably isn't a great loss but shame about the general section.

One of the reasons I found this place so appealing is the old internet vibes it has including the BBS, especially the general section. I hope this isn't an indicator of further 'modernizing' the site and making it less and less interactive just when I settled in, like it's a sad and regrettable trend everywhere else on the internet. Discord, or any real time chat, isn't a viable replacement for forum discussion by virtue of being faster and things going out of sight much faster. It's sad to see forums become more and more obscure. At least the more specific art forums still exist, but this change makes me wary for the future.

Seems it's impossibe to have a properly moderated art site with decent forums in the 2020s for some strange reason.

I wonder how all these sites in the early 00s with forums managed what seems to be impossible today.