I just want to comment specifically on the splintering into private discord servers because I was in one (actually 3 different servers that were created and then abandoned for one reason or another). Even while the Sims subcommunity here was dealing with discord drama and technical issues, this forum was always a consistent line of communication for us to use and host download links because discord kind of sucks at that. However since I think January the discord server vanished with no explanation, no one has stepped up to make a new one so the entire sims weight gain modding community has been in limbo for almost a year. Now, most of our mods are broken and I’m procrastinating on fixing them. (sorry sims fans I didn’t expect to be one of the only two people making these)
Don’t starve yourself or endure any undue mental distress for this forum, but just know that a lot of us almost need this consistently stable platform to express creativity and find community. I and many users will be sad if it gets shutdown but something else will come, should that ever happen.