ResearchGate Discontinuing Projects

A number of people on here use Researchgate - some for searching for and obtaining copies of papers direct from authors, some to follow particular researchers or projects, and some to post updates of their own work. However, the people running ResearchGate have decided to discontinue the 'Projects' facility. This means that material currently only hosted within a Project will disappear soon.

https://www.researchgate.net/researchgate-updates/retiring-projects

AlainCo - I think if a "Research Item" (e.g. an article) has been added to a project, then it is also available under the author's "Research" tab. However other items - such as collections of references - only seem to appear in the project, and will disappear from external view (it seems the project leader will be sent a copy, when the facility closes). There may be other items that are treated in the same way. I don't know.

Also, projects sometimes have items in them from several different participants - and so, even if they were still available under the respective authors' research tab, there would be no way for anyone to find them again unless by luck.

I accept that the Project facility was underused across the site - but for open source activities it could have been quite useful.