We want to thank everyone that has participated in the Workshops server for the past four years, ranging from screenshots in Trainz to your creations in 3D Modelling. Sodor Workshops started as a small group of friends coming together to make Thomas content for fun amongst ourselves, and then sharing that fun with the community. While our interest in Thomas has waned, we still enjoy it as a hobby/interest, and we will still be coming out with new content in future. However, we are NOT CLOSING THE WEBSITE or DELETING OUR CONTENT. Most of us have moved on to other priorities and interests, so it is with a heavy heart we are closing the Discord. It would be unfair to the community to continue the server when we have repeatedly failed to provide improvements.

We began to neglect our responsibilities as a moderation team when we became more and more preoccupied with external issues, and Thomas as a hobby had become less of a priority for a majority of the staff. Within those four years, our server has grown to an exponential scale that has proven too large for us to handle. When the Sodor Workshops Discord started four years ago, we strived to foster a camaraderie focused on Thomas in Trainz. Several of our moderators have also acted out of line in responding to users within our Discord which is unacceptable.

We realise there should have been clearer guidelines for deciding what constitutes punishment. With our restructure, we were still incapable of moderating a server by not having consistency between punishments toward different users and not having enough moderation to watch over the server.

This is a situation that has clearly grown over the past few months, and unfortunately it has reached a head. We were unable to effectively moderate a community within our Discord, thus we have decided that as of today, May 17th, 2021, we are deleting the server.

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