So for the Modkita project (yes that is now the name) there have been a few people on here that I have wanted to directly communicate with. The lag from messaging back and forth was getting annoying. As such I just created a Shapeoko Users Discord server for the community. Feel free to join. Here is the Server URL:
Discord is trash for forums. None of the stuff shows up in google searches. Hard to find older stuff. Its like using facebook groups, walled off and terrible also.