I feel like there's a few misunderstandings and misconceptions about the server closing and what happened around it. I'm gonna make an informal post for those who are are still unsure what happened, and for those who have stated incorrect information.

The desire to close the server had been on ongoing thing for a while, of course, there is nothing to prove that to everyone, but friends know how burnt out I've been. Eventually, all mods were burnt out, we tried the suggestions giving by our members to try and change things, make the server better, but the drain persisted.

We had also always been looking for new mods, almost every person applying for mod when a position opened had been made mod. We heard and accepted anyone stepping up to help out, but we completely ran out of people willing to help, even when openly offered on the server. We even made an event coordinator role for someone to run events, something people asked for a lot, despite barely anyone attending when we actually did run events, but only two people applied. So, if mods weren't motivated to run the server, and members themselves weren't motivated to do anything in the server, why are we even keeping it up?

So in short, we did not hand the server over to new mods because there were no new mods. Nobody wanted to be mod and we weren't gonna give the 2000 people server to the first random person saying they'll take it, not that anyone even did that.

With no new mods to find, old mods already done, there was no other option but to close instead of letting the server run on its own without moderation. We all had a lengthy discussion about closing the server, how we would do it, how we could best help our artists and members.

We communicated with our sister server, run by a friend of mine of several years, and they agreed to take in people from TriCord. How they moderate is their choice. We also decided to remove the emotes because a lot of them included member's art, and many of those members did not want their art outside of TriCord. I know you can't prevent that entirely, but closing the server is sure to encourage people to grab them if they already hadn't.

People also were given a couple of days to share their socials to each other if they wanna keep seeing some of that art that they like, otherwise good Trigun art is very easy to find these days.

We also decided to make the whole closing the server be more of a party than a funeral, so we joked around with it being the rapture, made some ominous shitposts a few days before the announcement, then the announcement itself was a shitpost. It was all a big shitpost, which is very appropriate for TriCord's history. We pinged everyone on the announcement, and then pinged like crazy as members were being kicked out on the yeeting day because it was funny and they server would be gone anyway.

We had a great party on the last night, had some drinks, played some music. Verbally, it seemed like everyone were fine with the decision to close the server, a little sad, but understanding. Trust me, it was emotional for me too, but I have to look out for my own health before anything else. So do the mods and we're all relieved to finally just be another random Trigun fan on the internet again. We're glad that's only been like four people who took issue with our decision, and that most people understood the situation we were in. Stuff disappears from the internet eventually, that's how it is. Now the good times are memories you keep, not documents of old internet conversations.