"Progress is slow" I say a couple hours before a massive announcement like this. I wanna start off by thanking delko, the whole post is shining with good news and also answers a lot of questions regarding recent actions, most importantly for this place the deletions. Here are some notable quotes:
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Drift Stage's web presence, since 2019; was a mess... and I don't want all of those old posts clogging up these forums, and I don't want to dwell on any negativity now that things have finally cleared up. Drift Stage fans deserve their community back, and that space needs to be free of any toxicity...

That's why I've deleted most of the old threads about it, and I don't leave stuff up on social media for long - I've afforded enough privacy to the involved parties - probably more then they deserved, and it's come at a high cost to my own "mental health" and reputation. Its really very straight forward to explain - there was just a lot of liability involved, and nothing was settled with the legal side of things, like the release. I had to wait until it was all wrapped up, and that wasn't until very recently...
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(please read his entire post.)

Regarding the existence of this place, I started it because of said deletions. I don't have good memory, gimmie 3 years and I've forgotten everything. So obviously if the thing I'm trying to recall has been erased from the history books then it's gonna feel like a big stick in my rear. Irregardless of delko's statement I think it's bad form to delete posts like he did. That stuff's history, as insignificant as it seems and I want that stuff to stick around so I can actually piece things together. If old posts are incorrect then you only need to make a new post clearing things up like you just did, only deleting the old ones will leave the incorrect statement lingering like a bad smell. I was here worried sick that you had some ulterior motives or something by trying to hide the game's history, just you wanted to clear the air.

That being said I wanna apologise profusely if this came off as stalking. By my definition taking screenshots of public posts is not stalking but it could very easily have come off as hostile, slanderous or confrontational which I pray it did not. I did my best to avoid all 3, I took some screenshots and asked like 3 people some questions. One thing I want to clear the air on is that one user in here went on a spree in the drift stage discussions page, calling the game dead and saying you didn't care about it and such. I didn't tell him to do that, when I saw him doing it I told him "don't do that dummy." cause I don't agree with it. I hope you don't think I orchestrated that or something.

I don't have a date on when most steam posts were deleted but between that point and right now there was basically no official statement on what had happened or was going on with the game. Lots of newcomers and/or oldcomers who'd forgotten didn't know anything which I don't find very cool with a very unfinished game like this for sale. The point of the external community was to A) piece together what had happened, and B) save everything in the present so this situation can't ever happen again. Seeing how quickly you worked it out of this rut I'm confident in saying that point B is not an issue I need to worry about anymore. Even if this happens again you'll have it straightened out in a month or 2. Just for the sake of having multiple sources on the topic I still wanna pursue point A, to compile a recollection of events from multiple community members so it can be lined up with your statement(s) for extra credibility.

Other than that, have a good one man, good luck with the game.

Not really. Lots of delko's twitter posts have been saved, same with steam discussions. I can't get all of it but I can get most of it. Things are happening in the background. I haven't posted anything new because there's no point to doing so, putting delko's deleted twitter posts on display would only make him look bad, that isn't the point of doing this. If he says something that might be hinting at progress I'll post it, the only thing in the twitter archive is an example of that. "I'm not waiting on [chase petit] anymore."

A timeline is still being pieced together. It's rough, very rough in its current state. Everything is word of mouth, no evidence hence why I don't wanna post it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/w7PaiGFC5WL4qKYG9

Anything remotely relevant got screencapped. Most got captured on the 14th. A lot of the very important info that used to be here has already been deleted, better late than never

https://photos.app.goo.gl/a9y7pM8rsqwuQcku9

(Read this entire post)

So far it's just one thing: A complete scroll through of Delko's twitter featuring several deleted posts. More will be added as this develops. I'm also considering putting this on archive.org or similar places, just wanna get as many mirrors as possible so it stands the test of time.

I want to make a separate archive of old, now deleted steam and twitter posts but I obviously can't do that. Again, if you've got any of that get in here ASAP and make a discussions post

(This is gonna serve as a dumping ground for deleted twitter stuff and potentially other social media)