EOL SI-COMMUNITY 2024

[SPJ]

Thanks for letting us know this far in advanced. You've done a stand up job looking after this forum and I'm sure contributing funds and time. I for one am very grateful.

I like the idea of a discord and archiving what is here. If someone else wants to take on the forum that is great, but it is a considerable commitment and we don't have a huge number of people actively engaging still. So that needs to be kept in mind.

For me, a discord or slack group sounds like a good idea.

Owei mentioned the hack issue. I worried that when the forum went down I wouldn't be able to find the community here and the incredibly useful resource collection elsewhere. As far as I know this is the only link to each other that we have.

So for me I think the coming months are the time to remedy these things. I applaud owei for levelling with us and involving us on deciding how to proceed. Let's work it out people!

[rray]

If the forum should go offline at some point, I'll make sure the resources will be online at the old address rray.de/xsi

[xsisoft]

hi ray! if it's not difficult, please make an offline copy of the resources section (resources.php), which can be downloaded

[rray]

There's a backup from 2016 it contains about 95% of what's there now viewtopic.php?p=58564.

Current version is in a SQL DB, not in a single html file anymore as before, so it's a lot of manual work to put everything in a html/zip.

[X-said]

I would also join DB testing

[xsisoft]

rray Thank you

[SPJ]

So, if I were to set up a Discord server or a Slack group for folks to join, is there a preference on platform? I personally use Slack every day so I would lean that way, but the floor is open.

[Mr.Core]

Houdini user community, maya (bifrost at least) and many other are located in discord which seems pretty common for cg nowadays

[Janosch]

If the forum should go offline at some point, I'll make sure the resources will be online at the old address rray.de/xsi

Gut zu hören das es ein Backup geben wird! Wenn ich bedenke wieviel Wissen mit dem SI-Forum verloren ging! 😭
Liebe Grüße an Alle SI-User!

Sry at all: my english is 🤮

[X-said]

Friends, I am glad to announce that softimage.ru has come to life!
And moved to a new place https://softimage-forum.ru/
I want to thank the administrator of eXed for saving this resource.

[matevil]

I'm join in the community not more time ago, and I found that... yes, I think the recourse should be a very important part of this forum like the tutorial or more interesting tropic I read in the last 2 weeks.

Mat

[wireframex]

Friends, I am glad to announce that softimage.ru has come to life!
And moved to a new place https://softimage-forum.ru/
I want to thank the administrator of eXed for saving this resource.

That's a good news

[FXDude]

2023 will be last year of si-community and it will close down in early 2024

That's TERRIBLE news !

but I do 100% agree with 'SPJ'

Thanks for letting us know this far in advanced.
You've done a stand up job looking after this forum and I'm sure contributing funds and time. I for one am very grateful.

Specially for the "letting know in advance" part.
Stuff that should be "basic respect", which various orgs don't always ( if ever ) abide by lol...

(but I do hope you might reconsider until then lol)

will personally press that paypal button as soon as my next gig
( half my time between jobs is for "experimental stuff" lol )

[Pooby]

Oh No.. I'd just decided to start contributing again...

[rray]

Keeping an archive is exactly the same amount of work as if just keeping the forum online. Google drive won't work because the forum/search needs php (forum static backups almost impossible to create properly)

If the handover mentioned on page 1 didn't work out I can sign up the cheapest package on all-inkl.com hosting for example and move the domain there. No guarantees this would work though.

[opoppopopp]

I can't lose the resource section ...(is that pure front end based?)
Can we just make an "image" of the whole site, and I local hosting when I need it?
I understand static backup won't work.