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Somehow I stumbled across this development blog over on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BYOND/posts that gets way more posts and more detailed posts than the BYOND forum.

What's the deal with that?

Is membership being deprecated and Patreon becoming the official way to support BYOND?
If you're a member you also get access to an exclusive member discord server where these posts are available aswell, iirc. You have to ask Lummox for the invite.
Best response
Patreon is just an alternate way people can support BYOND if they like; some people prefer the recurring thing to a Membership. In order to provide value to the Patrons and as a thanks for their support, I do a little under-the-hood post there every week, and Patrons get exclusive early access for a week. There's also a special Discord (which is also shared with SubscribeStar).