The main activity and focus of Seriously! is now on our Discord server. Things are simply going to shift in a big way. So what does this mean going forward? Well Seriously! isn't dead by a long shot. And as you can see there is a coming soon page up, but that is on a new host provided by a generous member of our community. This last year we raised about half of the money in donations just to give it one more shot, but the activity level on the forums has been too low to make it worth renewing the hosting.
We also got a little bit of money from merchandise but that hasn't been profitable in years. Now in the past the site used to have ad revenue and donations to cover hosting costs. It's also because of the file downloads because we have to host them ourselves now as opposed to being able to offload that to multiple mirrors in the past. This is mostly because of the forum software, which is really old, heavy, and cpu intensive. It costs nearly $400 a year to keep it running at a speed comfortable to the traffic load. The simple answer is that it is no longer worth the money required to keep it in operation. After nearly 20 years in operation, in various forms, the Seriously! website as everyone knows it is closing its doors.
