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770 points ta988 | 1 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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ksec ◴[30 Dec 24 17:50 UTC] No.42551642[source]▶

On a side note. CGTalk ( One of the largest forum for 3D / VFX Content creation ) was shut down earlier this year citing resources reasons. And for whatever reason they didn't allow anyone to take a copy of the data, run the forum. They could have sold that Data to OpenAI.

I wonder how many Forums shut down due to traffics like this? Most of the reason why forums moved to Slack, Discord etc was that they no longer have to host or operate any server.

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1. phendrenad2 ◴[02 Jan 25 04:05 UTC] No.42571527[source]▶

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I doubt OpenAI would buy the data, they probably scraped it already.

Looks like CGTalk was running VBulletin until 2018, when they switched to Discourse. Discourse is a huge step down in terms of usability and polish, but I can understand why they potentially did that. VBulletin gets expensive to upgrade, and is a big modular system like wordpress, so you have to keep it patched or you will likely get hacked.

Bottom-line is running a forum in 2024 requires serious commitment.

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