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If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/

https://rpgmakerchat.com/

https://github.com/imraf/rpgmakerweb-archive/

Imagine if during their 'please don't think we're gay if we are seen together... pls ... kay thanks bye' press conference, Shane says Ilya's name and pronounces it correctly (ill-ya roZAnov instead of eel-ee-a ROzanov) and at first people online clown on him for saying it wrong, but then ...

tiktok girlie: Okay guys, get this. I have looked everywhere, and I mean EVERYWHERE for a video of Ilya saying his own name and ... it doesn't exist. This man has not said his own name in eight years in the MLH.

*cuts to video of MLH players doing some charity thing* Marleau: Hi, my name is Cliff Marleau. Hunter: Hey. This is Scott Hunter. Ilya: You know who I am.

*cuts to another video* Interviewer: Can you introduce yourself? Ilya: No.

tiktok girlie: Like ... what the hell? I found one (ONE) video where he says his name, but ... *sigh* he says it like this:

*cuts to a video of Ilya and his teammates playing Mario Kart and Ilya saying "IL-i-AAA ROO-za-NOV" in an Iltalian accent so it sounds like 'it's a me, Maaa-ri-ooo".

tiktok girlie: You guys! What if Hollander is saying it right??? Wouldn't that be so crazy? That would mean that all of his teammates and coaches and all the commentators and fans have been saying it wrong for years. And his BIGGEST RIVAL pronounces it correctly.

i feel like the difference is that ilya is definitely not talking to svetlana about his and shane's sex life because 1) ilya thinks their sex is Sacred to a degree that's embarrassing 2) he's experienced enough that there's not a lot svetlana is going to be able to offer or add 3) that's hisshane and nobody else should be thinking about him.