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Thanks, everyone. I'm going to miss this place, too. To be honest, I've cried most days since I got laid off. Not for the loss of the job, that will end up being. a very good thing, but for the loss of this place and everyone here. This place has been my home for so long, and having something that you built over the last 14 years just... gone... I just can't do it. Me leaving here isn't my choice, and it's been really hard having people act like it is. The company had mass layoffs, I was affected. I wasn't allowed to tell my clients this, I had to lie to them and tell them I was leaving on my own accords. Even my clients that I've had for over 6 years. So even though my clients wanted to continue to work with me, I had to lie to them and tell them I didn't want to work with them anymore. I cried before and after every single video I filmed for them. And I can't tell anyone here the truth, either. I can't talk about my life or anything going on, I haven't been able to in years. The mental turmoil that I've been put through over the last bit to protect NF isn't something I can continue to put myself through. This isn't a healthy place for me. If anyone wants to keep in touch, I'd absolutely love that - my contact info is in my signature. Thank you for being such a big part of my life for so long. It's been one of the greatest joys of my life, and I found the greatest joy of my life here (hi @Rurik Harrgath) , But I need to go.

thank you ❤️❤️❤️ Thanks, Jarric! Thanks - it's not really my choice and I'm very saddened, too. I'll miss this place a lot. Thank you! Once my last few loose ends are cleared up, I don't have any plans of coming here again - but I'd love to keep in touch outside NF sponsored avenues.

Thank you so much <3<3<3 It's definitely been a tough time all around, and I'm going to miss this place terribly. I don’t want anyone to ever think that this place has become a burden on me. It’s the opposite - I love this place with everything I have and have never minded taking on whatever I need to. We also used to have better systems to recruit guild leaders and encourage things like mini challenges and things like that, but over the years that's kind of slowly just gone away as participation has lowered. I’m grieving, and grieving hard, along with being a bit limited in what I can say right now, so if my messages seem short or like I am annoyed, please know that I am just a bit numb right now and it’s not you (or you all collectively, either). But please don't let what's going on with me ruin anything here for you all. Part of the grieving is that I know that all of this (moving on job wise, and probably the forums) is the right next step for me personally, and a long overdue necessary next step, but not being ready to let go of what used to be. My job was magical for a very long time, and it hasn't been for a very long time, and it's not going to magically turn around and be 2015 again. So it goes.

thanks, shaar ❤️ it's been the absolute craziest last few months, and my brain is still spinning like crazy. It honestly doesn't feel true still. . I've been getting more and more back into FB and FB groups lately as it seems like FB isn't actually going anywhere, and it's actually been how I've managed to find most of my local farm connections/animals/etc. There are a few NF Sponsored things: 1) FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NerdFitnessPrime This is free and is open to the public, anyone. 2) NF Rebellion Discord - this is free and public to everyone: https://discord.gg/g8FakBG9 3) Forum Friends Discord (name was recently changed as people were getting confused with the official one, and the name change actually had nothing to do with me leaving :)) - I told NF I would continue to keep this running and that I'd hand it over to them to manage if that changes: https://rebellion.nerdfitness.com/index.php?/discord/invite/general/ I personally will not be in 1 and 2 (but obviously if anyone wants to join and participate there, please do), as those have the same overarching problem that staying here does, but will be in #3.

Hi everyone, As many of you know, my last day at NF was last week, and I've also stepped down as admin here on the forums. I don't have more information for you right now for a big announcement post with all of the info of who will be taking over, but it also appears that there's a lot of anxiety over the future of the forums, so I wanted to say something here. I've left them with everything they need and the challenges should continue along as normal, and nothing should be changing that I know of except that I won't be here. Once a new community manager has been appointed by NF, and everything is sorted, they'll make a bigger post to the entire community introducing themselves. That's it for now. Hope y'alls challenges are going well!

It's so hard, especially since life has so much going on. Sometimes it feels like everyone is super active, and then others, no one. And we tried over the years making the challenges longer or shorter to increase or keep up the excitement over the second half, but it never worked. Shorter felt rushed, longer encouraged dropoffs. I know my interaction on other people's threads started getting less and less when I started coaching. When you're talking to 70-85 people every single day, and helping them with their goals, I found it impossible as an introvert to want to interact more on the forums, I just started spending my time off work not talking to *anyone*, or with animals, and outside. It was just total burnout from my work day from me - and I never expected interaction on my threads when I wasn't interacting a lot, which made it less fun or not as much of a reason to update. "hey havent updated in a week again," gets kind of old to update when I desperately want to be participating more. I do think I plan on leaving the forums after this challenge. @Rurik Harrgath is up to making his own decision, but unfortunately he's seen some of the things that drove me away last year and are forcing me to make my decision now first hand, so it may be a difficult thing to come back to for him as well, but who knows. We were both SO excited about this challenge, and then the wind got taken out from under our sails when i got laid off. I do know I'd love to figure out a way for us to all still keep in touch and maybe even support each other on our goals without the forum format, but I haven't had the brainspace to really figure it out yet.

Thank you, everyone. These last few weeks have honestly been some of the toughest of my life and I've very much just focused on putting my head down and getting things done and focusing on getting everything in order, both personally and getting my clients transferred to their new coaches and getting everything ready for the new community manager here. My last day was Friday and I haven't had much time to really do much else since then, things have been crazy. I will likely be leaving the forums from a personal level as well as an admin level. This is something I'm really struggling with, and would love to figure out the best ways to stay in touch (how do people communicate outside of forums these days? discord? facebook?) and figure out a different way to even help each other hit goals, but to be honest a lot of the reasons why I needed a break last year are still really big reasons, I just decided to overlook them because I missed y'all.

Yeah, we had been working together on a lot of aspects, which is why this decision felt both like a huge surprise and not one at all. The truth is with the new contract, I knew I'd be looking within a year (it had a few terms in it I knew were okay super temporarily, but absolutely not long term), so this works out for me because while it's a surprise, I'm eligible for unemployment and can take some time to figure out what my next steps are and find the RIGHT next position. Definitely a lot of nostalgia here, and you're not wrong, only if you say last year or so it's really been since about 2016. NF is perfectly happy to keep this up and running but there aren't current plans to change things and start pushing a lot of people here. I'm hoping bringing in a new community manager will help here, though I know he'll start with just the basics and getting a feel for things and making sure the challenges are up and running. I won't likely be around here much - but would love it to actually meet up at some point - you are so close it's amazing to me we haven't yet 😆 Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! Nah, y'all aren't little blips, you're an amazing community that I've gotten be best friends and my husband out of. Regardless of if i'm physically here anymore or not, the forums and their influence completely surround every aspect of my life. Not little blips, big blips But also thank you thanks it's been a long 13 (or however many!) years!

It's worse when you're dealing with custom code surrounded by forum software code that CHANGES EVERY TIME THEY DO AN UPDATE. I swear they were just trying to mess with me sometimes! no the forum software just decided to "depreciate" them with an update so I had to move them back! Thankfully the titles were never lost.

Thanks for letting me know! I ran a general update on the forum but that's about all so far, so hopefully the general update fixed it

I can't figure out how to get them back to where they used to be, but hey, this will have to do!

Sorry about that, you should be good to go now. I had tried setting up something to prevent brand new members from creating an account, uploading an advertisement as their profile photo, and never returning to the forums again, and my query didn't work as intended. Let me know if you still have any issues!

Everyone who is an active member now has unlimited storage.

Lots and lots and lots of layoffs going on right now, too, so a lot of people are going to be selling stuff just to make some money. And lots of financial goals in January, too Worth taking up the deal!

hey y'all, first, thanks for the personal support. On a bigger level, I don't actually know the plan for the forums and who will be taking them over. That's not meant to be an alarmist statement at all, but it is the truth right now. There are a lot of moving parts at NF right now, and a lot of things being figured out, and the forums and who from the team will take care of them in my absence is one of those things. The work that I do on the forums has always been on my own personal time, so they're now looking to see where it fits within actual roles on the team as the permissions needed for the updates mean we need for it to be a team member. I can tell you I sent over all of the requirements and list of training sessions I need to hold with my replacement to my team earlier this week, and that I am doing everything in my power to make this be a positive change for the forums, or at least not a negative one. As you can probably tell from the fact that I'm training people and still working with my clients and making sure they are taken care of that NF and I are still on good terms, regardless of the situation, and we would both like to keep it that way. I have expressed the importance of the forums every opportunity I have been given. Lastly, for the discord server that's connected to the forums right now, I actually own that server personally (I paid for the sync on my own and it's on my account, it's not something nf wanted to have to maintain but said I could do on my own), so if anything happened to the forums, I will keep that up and running, it just won't be connected here anymore, so @Heidi - you can of course make your own, but this one isn't going anywhere It's the one thing I DO have actual power over here!