I was hoping to wait until an import had been successfully attempted, but I can confirm that I have sent a complete copy of the GD post records over to Jordus.

Let me assure you that I'm not angry at the go community. My professional life has changed quite a bit since I started this site and that has inversely affected my ability to maintain GD.

There have been a couple failed attempts to pass on the reigns, but this is the first one I have confidence can succeed and I fully support it.

I'll go ahead and create an official announcement thread now.

I am happy to announce some news tonight that will be welcomed by the GoDiscussions community. In an effort to avoid splitting the members or having GD live on as a mere archive (or worse, lose 4 years of posts if this site fails completely), I have sent Jordus the complete archive of posts for him to import into LifeIn19x19.

I am confident that the team over there will be able to handle that in a graceful manner, and once complete, I will close this site and direct people to that domain.

My personal and professional obligations have changed quite a bit in the years since I created the site, and I haven't been able to maintain it in the way that it deserves. I would have done this sooner if possible, but there simply weren't any alternatives that I felt were truly sustainable.

Additionally, I would like to say that I am willing to transfer the GoDiscussions.com domain name to Jordus and team if the community desires that. I will leave that up to the people here and Lifein19x19 to decide.

It has been a genuine pleasure to watch this community grow and evolve. I am also relieved, as I know everyone else is, to see this effort transition into its next era. I look forward to seeing it thrive again.

Thanks to everyone who has made this community what it is.

Don

I'm curious. If Don is so willing to hand over all the threads from GD I have to assume he is closing GD down. What about transferring the domain name? That would seem to be the logical final step becuase GD has name recognition. And must as I appreciate all the effort which has been put into this new site, I think the name is not optimal.

One other thought. If all the posts are being transfered from GD what is being done about username resolution?

As for the second issue, we still have some details to figure out. One possibility is for a read-only archive of the GD posts in a separate forum.

This is a very welcomed and encouraging statement From Don. He exits as he entered, with style, grace and foresight. Thank you, Don!

So the big question... do we go back to the GD domain name?

Seeing as how Sol.ch has created a new name for himself here will I get credit for all his posts if I usurp the name on this site?

Im keeping them all myself old man.

First DrStraw merges his four identities DrStraw, DrStraw's book sales, Sakata, Iamnotwhoyouthinkiam.
Now sol is splitting personalities posting as both Sol.ch and Araban.

I think I need to lie down...