Thanks for the great memories here! Will be moving to Github as soon as the new site launches but I had a great time creating and helping maintain rulesheets here.
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Appreciate all the work you did on those rule sheets, @CaptainBZarre !
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@gdd
Pinside is willing to host your rulesheets editable. Puts them in the largest pinball community and makes them available easier than github.
Please reach out to Robin, this is a great solution
I just responded over there, but I am pretty committed to my current path. I hope that anyone interested in having the rulesheets be a resource in their own software does so.
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I saw. If Robin can integrate via github I think its a great resource to add to pinside and brings a larger audience to it
Pinside is not a fun place to be for a large portion of the pinball community. Iām glad theyāre going to be hosted elsewhere.
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Thanks so much to @gdd and everyone who contributed to this forum!
This place had the best signal-to-noise ratio of any discussion medium. Even as the output trended towards zero, I still visited nearly every day. The streamer thread, the rulesheets, the semi-useful deep cuts, all legendary threads that will be helpful and awesome even years from now. Discord feels so ephemeral to me in comparison!
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if you keep to the owner threads itās pretty good 
avoid all the other hype threads then-
Iāve been thinking about the closure here for a few days and just wanted to share a few thoughts before itās all wrapped upā¦
Tilt Forums provided space for civil, intelligent discussion at a time when it was severely lacking in the pinball world. As I was getting more involved in competition and running events there really wasnāt a dedicated place for thoughtful pinball discussion about rules, ethics, social issues, etc. I was fed up with Pinside nonsense and RGP2 was already fading out, so this site was perfectly timed for those of us who craved something more substantial. A place to actually communicate without all the noise, easily accessible as a resource for anyone to stumble upon from a search engine without needing an account to view.
Itās a bummer that most of the interesting pinball conversation has shifted to private (or less immediately visible) channels, but I guess thatās just the way it goes as technology changes and people migrate where they feel most comfortable. Iām not particularly interested in staying up on every subchannel or getting notifications all the time, so a lot of that information just ends up getting buried by 100+ posts of inside jokes and goofy gifs by the time I end up looking at it, and I have to rely on friends who are more terminally pinball online to filter it down to me. I know this all sounds very āold man yells at cloudā and Iām not anti-fun, it just stinks that much of the good info gets diluted by a poor signal to noise ratio if youāre not staying up on it 24/7.
Anyway, Iām glad to know TF will be archived because thereās so much deep info here, and of course itās great that the rulesheets will be publicly available. This is all probably coming off as grouchy, but I totally understand the reasoning to move on. Thanks so much for what you provided here, Greg. I have nothing but respect and appreciation for your efforts. Additional thanks to the moderators who kept shit in check along the way, and to the obsessives who put so much work into the rulesheets.
Iāve always felt solidarity when some bonehead pinbro would sarcastically post something like ācanāt wait to see the TF crowd get their pitchforks outā¦ā about a current hot button issue. Kind of like being called āwokeā as an insult 
Iām at fewer events these days, but always happy to chat if you see me around. Iām friendlier than I look!
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I feel obligated to post the WPPR v6.3 update here. I miss the slow burn of people being upset at IFPA for hundreds of posts over the course of months rather than it being the 72 hour burn and churn that it has been since moving to Discord.
Iāll let the team know we need to get this announced before September so we can send Tilt Forums out with a bang!
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When I was newly into pinball, I found Pinside first, but very soon discovered how awful it was, and felt discouraged. Then I found Tilt Forums and it became my main home. I learned a lot about the ethos of competitive pinball here and stayed up to date on pinball news. Thanks to being such a devoted follower of Tilt Forums, I often knew more about the latest rumors and gossip than the more experienced players in my local leagues. I owe a lot of my early integration into the hobby to Tilt Forums. This news isnāt a surprise, since this place has been nearly moribund for a while now, but Iām sad because I miss the days of forum-style discussion. Iām a creature of the early Internet and I prefer the slower pace and the ability to read through posts at greater leisure. The more synchronous interaction of Discord is what draws people to it but itās also what makes it less useful to me, for reasons jdelz has already touched on.
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Bummer, but totally understandable. Even a quiet forum is work and non-negligible expense to manage. Thanks for all you put into things over the years, and for making the effort at the end to cleanly transition into archive mode and keep the content alive. Too many places like this just wink out of existence one day and all of that information is lost forever, Iām glad this wonāt be one of them.
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Iāll miss it here in so many ways. Thank you to @gdd and the moderators and all the contributors!
Thereās absolutely no place like Tilt Forums
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