Important Community Announcement: The Future of the Forum is in Our Hands!

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Hi everyone,

I am reaching out to you with some critical and urgent news regarding our online space. MaidSafe will no longer fund the forum, which means its survival from this point forward depends entirely on us as a community.

The question is simple: Does anyone want to pay for it and take over the hosting costs to keep it alive?

:police_car_light: The Situation is Urgent

Time is strictly against us right now:

  • The payment due date was: June 11, 2026

  • Current Status: Since the deadline has already passed, the forum is currently running on borrowed time and could go down at any moment.

:handshake: How to Reach Me

If you are willing to take over the funding, please reach out to me immediately.

:mobile_phone: Contact me directly on Discord: dimitarsafenetworkbulgaria

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perhaps an idea for current owner to make a copy of the forum data and store it on autonomi someway or another. Why wouldn’t we preserve its exactly what this project is intended for. It be hilarious if these posts gathered through the years get lost

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Yes, this is the backup idea, I’ve started scrapping the forum. Unfortunately, the MaidSafe team is small and they easily forget to tell us when such decisions are made so we have time to react…

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How much funding is needed?

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It’s currently hosted on the official Discourse servers and they charge $500 per month, which is insane. It could certainly be hosted on Henzner for $20 per month.

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If it can be moved to a self-hosted solution on Hetzner or similar, I can chip in a few $ per month if some others do too.

$500 does sound like too much.

Whatever happens, it must be archives, so well done for working on this.

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That’s 6k annually. Easy come…

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There is (or at least was) so much juicy stuff in the anals of the boards (e.g. the same person who now claims they know nothing about crypto and only ever spent dough on MAID claiming they have gained financial independence (not from MAID, but from other crypto) that losing it all would really be a shame.

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What is the mimimum contract length with Discourse? I’m thinking pay for another few months on an emergency basis while we sort out whether and how to transfer it to a cheap Cloud based server. It would be a shame to lose it all while we’re deciding what to do.

And I’ll definitely contribute whatever we decide.

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There may be some value in keeping the archives but as for continuing either on Discord or some other service - the volume of posts recently tells its own story…

Anyone seriously interested in continuing with the forum will need to find a critical mass of competent folks to prepare and consume our own dogfood.

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FYI: currently the cost is $120 per month (I asked Maidsafe)

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A back up of the forum would be nice and then eventually continue on a forum on the ANT network.

Or just an Archive on the network if we ever want to reference a topic / post.

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Sad to hear, but I guess not too surprising. A lot of history here, given the low volume of usage these days, hard to say if it’s worth continuing or not. I’d like to see it keep going and could chip in a few dollars a month, but how many will keep using it into the future? Seems like it’s time may have come.

Who owns the domain name? If Maidsafe, will they allow us to keep using it? Or would we need a new one?

I suggest that if we are to continue, we should take on a broader focus to attract and keep people coming to visit and post. No idea on what that focus might be.