Piña Colada is good, but try frying the rings in a 2:1 mix of brown sugar to butter until tender, then boil down the sauce into a caramel of sorts.

There is a procedure for migrating profiles and posts to new instances, if the old instance is still up.

And on the admin side, there’s established time frames and grace periods for server closures. Barring a big disaster, you’ll have time to move your stuff.

Might be worth grabbing a copy of 1.3 and seeing if you can force a downgrade, since 1.4 released earlier the same month. No idea how far back the premeditation goes on this.

I’ll be doing the same.

This.
I got super unlucky here, and this news dropped literally the day after I bought an A1.

I’m still going to try and force it into a usable no-internet state, but I don’t have high hopes right now.