"FreddyFox1234;c-18321088" wrote:
When the forums were down yesterday I put it on Answers HQ and @EA_Cade said it was a problem with the forum host and that they were looking into it — i.e. it wasn’t maintenance or routine.
Until I saw that response, I felt bereft. I’m not on Twitter/X, so I had no idea if it was a problem at my end or whether it was something everyone else knew about. I didn’t know where I could find out. And given all the talk there’s been here about closing the forum down, I realised how much I’d miss it, and how much I’d miss everyone I ‘meet’ here, and all the inspiration I get whenever I come here. It all sounds a bit overdramatic now, but I really felt that.
My head tells me there’s no way they’d shut the forum down without warning us all, given how much people put into sharing their amazing stories, builds, screenshots, ideas, etc. And I don’t think there’s any real reason to think they’d close it. I’ve had trouble finding this forum on Google for a long time — I used to only be able to find it by typing in a specific issue I had, rather than searching for the name of the forum itself. I have it bookmarked now.
The Search Engine Optimization for this site isn't great and we've been looking into this for a while.
We know we have a ton of users here who don't have Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc. and rely on this site for updates. I'll be very upfront and say that despite the recent technical issues I've heard nothing about this forum closing, and I can't see us ever closing this forum without cause, and already having a successor up and running.
My purpose here is to provide information where I'm able, report the goings on here up the chain in terms of likes and dislikes, but mostly to post GIFs and make dad jokes. So it's in my best interest to keep the site around to host my GIFs and jokes for posterity.
The Sims Team
