"the base discord is not shutting down." base's own discord announcement says it, in bold. what ends is the based advocate program. the announcement links @svmvn, who worked with it. by his count the program ran three years, grew to about 100 advocates, supported a ~600k discord and a ~100k reddit, and resolved "hundreds, sometimes thousands, of tickets each week". > base's note from oct 16 says it decided "to not continue the advocates program for the time being", to "reallocate resources" > in its place, "a separate role to bring this function in-house", with the job linked right in the note. builder operations associate, a 6-month contract via magnit or deel, $54.71 to $64.38 an hour > the role covers discord and reddit support, tickets, roles, bots and automod > the note ends with "this is not a definitive end" @little_dogx, an advocate for almost two years, said this morning that "it's impossible for a single person to handle both discord and reddit even with automation and ai agents". "base dc shut down" still did 86k views, and by saturday it had turned into a $base snapshot theory. nothing on the record backs that one. about 100 advocates, one contract role, and base asked them to apply.