The day after Rigby2D 0.5 launched, we opened Reddit and found r/rigby2d banned. No warning, no message, no reason. Every post, every reply, every feature idea people had shared with us: gone behind a "this community is banned" screen.
We still don't know why. If we ever get an answer, we'll share it here. What we do know is that a community shouldn't live on a platform that can switch it off overnight.
#Our new home: Discord
- #showcase: show what you made: rigs, animations, games and works in progress.
- #help: one thread per question, so answers are easy to find later.
- #feature-requests: where the next version gets shaped, like the ideas that became SVG import and sprite sheet export.
- #runtimes: for anyone building a runtime against the runtime spec.
- #中文: for our Chinese community.
The editor, the website and the README all point there now. File ▸ Share to Discord… turns your animation into a GIF and opens #showcase, ready to post.
#Next: a forum of our own
Discord is the quick fix. The real fix is a forum we run ourselves, on rigby2d.com, where nobody can take the community away. It's on the roadmap, and we'll build it in the open like everything else.
#Thank you
To everyone who wrote in asking what happened, and to the people who offered to help spread the new link: thank you. Rigby2D is still free, still open source, and still yours. See you on Discord.