Anthrogenica Closure Sad news

[Beowulf]

Official post by the Adminstrator of the site:

Dear community,

As a follow-up to our very sad announcement (https://anthrogenica.com/showthread....933#post941933), we have opened this thread to grant everyone the opportunity to express themselves, and potentially ask the remaining administration any questions to anything we missed in the announcement post.

We ask our users to please ensure that they have read the entirety of the closure announcement thread before submitting any questions to us, given the exhaustive amount of content we had shared with you.

Additionally we will ask everyone to please respect the privacy of the administrators. As indicated, a change in real-life personal circumstances contributed to the resignations of the second core team of this site. All are well, but life events dictated their respective departures.

Lastly, we also ask that everyone posting accepts the finality of the difficult decision we had reached through consensus and days of discussion. We had painstakingly described the processes which led us to this decision in the announcement post. These processes are unfortunately immovable and external legal advice made the choices clear.

We share in every single user's disappointment and sadness. As our announcement reveals, every reasonable possibility in keeping the site alive was explored, but the consistent opinions or warnings we had received from outside legal counsel left us with no other option.

This thread will remain active until the discontinuation of active posting in one week time (01 August 2023).

We (administrators) will aim to respond to as many questions as possible while active posting is still permissible. Please expect a reply within 1-2 working days.

Thank you again for joining us along the years, and we wish everyone reading, be they future thread participant or lurker, the very best with their genealogical and ancestral journeys.

[Abriekman]

All Anthrogenica members probably will have to join Apricity, other genetic forums aren't active

[Beowulf]

All Anthrogenica members probably will have to join Apricity, other genetic forums aren't active

Yeah but i will really miss AG

[Hulu]

What were these legal issues?

Is TA really the only genetics forum remaining

[Abriekman]

Is TA really the only genetics forum remaining

There is Eupedia but it became very inactive lately

[Katarzyna]

All Anthrogenica members probably will have to join Apricity, other genetic forums aren't active

Oh, please no. I never used AG, only have an account there to try some calculators that we don’t have in TA. And then I saw that AG is full of newbies asking basic questions under almost VERY THREAD: “Hi, what is Vahaduo? / what are coordinates?/ what means distance?/ this and that DNA Company said I got royal dna, is it true?”
While newbies on TA are different. They first participate in non genetic conversations like about cultures, politics or even completely off topic (food etc) and then they will slowly make friends with fellow members and figure out how calcs work. That’s how it was the case with me when I joined TA two months ago. So they will figure out the basics on their own or ask their new friends in private messages but won’t disturb the flow in some forum threads by asking the same all over again

[CordedWhelp]

TA won that last-man-standing match...

[Abriekman]

Oh, please no. I never used AG, only have an account there to try some calculators that we don’t have in TA. And then I saw that AG is full of newbies asking basic questions under almost VERY THREAD: “Hi, what is Vahaduo? / what are coordinates?/ what means distance?/ this and that DNA Company said I got royal dna, is it true?”
While newbies on TA are different. They first participate in non genetic conversations like about cultures, politics or even completely off topic (food etc) and then they will slowly make friends with fellow members and figure out how calcs work. That’s how it was the case with me when I joined TA two months ago.

Exactly, I like that Anthrogenica is focused only on genetics and nothing else. There is more liberty on Apricity, though. I know many nice Anthrogenica members who got banned for stupid reasons.

[Jana]

Didn't like that politically correct BS forum. Good riddance. TA is place of freedom unlike their shitty site.

[Hulu]

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Thank you again for joining us along the years, and we wish everyone reading, be they future thread participant or lurker, the very best with their genealogical and ancestral journeys.

How would there be future thread participants if they're closing?