Feeling kind of down though. One of my closest friends from there left the forums permanently. I wish him the best, of course, but I'd be lying if I said I won't miss him. One of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of chatting with.
After I sent him a message a while back, he let me know that he was stepping away for a while for some self-improvement/alone time. That kind of thing, but that he wasn't sure if he would return. This morning he scrubbed his profile and left a one word message as a status. "Goodbye."
If I didn't know what he told me in DMs I might've thought something worse had happened, tbh.