honestly, i think cttw closing is a gigantic shame, not from a standpoint of it being any indication of forum rp dying but from the standpoint of it being one of the few major resource communities that were not on discord.

it's another gigantic hit for static coding resources, especially in regards to free-to-use pre-made skins (since there's still a good solid handful listed there that are "modern" enough to remain competitive in the current aesthetic arms race), and one that stings more than a little more sharply in the wake of jcc absolutely melting down and taking down another good chunk of coding resources that were primarily found there. it's also going to take out a major advertising space in a landscape that has largely shifted towards advertising primarily via resource sites as opposed to the typical first link / linkback model.

like. maybe it's just me being old but i think that the larger shift of general community watering holes from away from forums and into discords is something we should be talking about way more as a community in terms of how it negatively impacts how the accessibility of both resources (coding, graphics, etc) and the general community (advertising, discussions, etc), especially for newcomers to the community who might not know these resources exist, never mind how to locate + access them (or, in a topical tangent, how easy it becomes to completely lock people out of the community, for better or worse).