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And now, other things added over time will leave.
In March, there was a pre-change discussion from Admin about what to expect. The main post is gone, but Levi’s description is still there at: https://tac.tonypolecastro.com/topic/31030-announcement-the-future-of-tac-forums/. I suggest anyone seeking to evaluate the changes and make decisions capture it, as it will no doubt leave soon, too. (All the old forum posts are slated to go the way of the dodo anytime, now, based on what we were told in March.)
We are now almost 90 days in, and there is a lot that is not yet happening, and trust me as someone who has communicated with Admin a lot on this, and worked diligently to try to connect those local to me, that is a really hard pill for me to swallow. The new features are not there (yet??) regarding connecting to fellow, local members. The map is permanently gone, there is no way to capture and communicate with a group (on the TAC system), and the location feature has only started to work better in the last week or so (and CO still brings in Connecticut, Wiconson, British Columbia, and New Mexico, fwiiw).
Were the weekly “Journal” and “Hollar” a major need? Well no, but then, they both followed up on a party topic and intro in the before times rolled out with great fanfare. (So was the “WOGI” or progress party, which is now all that remains.)
As for were we consulted? As a member, NO. Were the mentors? Mostly you get a “that wasn’t really discussed” and now they are gone too. Is the content and teaching worth it in the rapidly post covid times? Hmmmmmm, each of us has to decide where we spend our money to gain on this obsession we worked out way into. It has brought real progress, but I am evaluating if that is still true as I come up on next February.
I guess I sound like I am complaining, so I should say that, well, I am responding to this thread with what Admin has been told by me, and what my perceived results have been to date. Will it improve in some of these other areas beyond a mostly working speed? Who knows, I hope so, but stuff seems to go away faster than it gets fixed.
And the fun is far less, for me at least.