Hi, I've just joined here and am admin for the GLF.
As suggested above, the GLF had become very quiet over the past few years, with most of the active content being general chat and only the occasional new post/thread actually about sustainable living. The Online Safety Act requirements would involve addressing many different categories of risk, demonstrating how we are mitigating for them, doing - and documenting - regular reviews. There are grey areas (such as removing dodgy posts in a 'reasonable timescale') and the size of potential fines for non-compliance (which would fall on me) is scary. One of the more concise guides, which it was recommended should be read in its entirety, was 84 pages of clauses and subclauses, and I decided my heart really wasn't in it. There had already been mutterings about the forum reaching the end of its useful life, so the decision was made that it will end in mid-March.
Joeboy, I've not seen any suggestions that this forum could host the GLF archive - did I miss that? A lot of people have asked if it could be kept available on a read-only basis - we've been telling them that it won't be possible because of hosting costs, but if it was possible for it to be hosted as an archive here, that would be fantastic
