Not sure I am under European jurisdiction, and none of the information backed up is private.
Just a user alias (not the username), date/time, and the posted comment. All publicly available without even a login, or any expectation that the information was private. Keep in mind no contact information is included.
Copies of these posts appear in google searches, complete with the same information. This has been the case for 20+ years.
I want to be clear. We made a partial backup of the forums. It's just the web page of the thread, which you're seeing here, which is publicly available. The first page of each thread was backed up, and indexed so as to be searchable by topic. No attachments, and no underlying user information, as that isn't even technically possible by simply loading each thread in a browser and saving the page.
@MikeHart You mention transferring a whole forum (complete with private user data) between owners. That is way beyond saving a publicly viewable web page. Think internet wayback machine instead. (copies of these forum pages are publicly available there too)
https://web.archive.org/web/20241122221012/https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/229723
Secondly the spaces for Syntaxbomb are for AppGameKit. I have posted links detailing this. It's a great site. Hopefully they expand that to include other TGC products. There was some talk about that, and I will update the subreddit if I learn of any changes there.
You have expressed concerns about spreading ourselves thin. I am also concerned about this. When this closure was announced there were zero spaces available for anything other than AppGameKit. Even then anyone going to this forum would be hard pressed to find those spaces. I setup the subreddit as the ONLY available space at the time for everything else. Since then we've had some help to make available a forum or two. It's not clear if those will get any activity, since that happens organically.
I really don't care where people settle. My concern is backing up precious resources the community relies on, and ensuring people looking for the community can find the community. That means at least one option that is as visible as possible, even if it just points people in the proper direction.
