Personally, I very regret about the decision to retire projects in RG. This was a good possibility to order publications by subjects, to inform the community about the progress of own long-term projects, and to get informed about the progress of projects of other researchers. - You may try to contact RG's support team at https://www.researchgate.net/contact. If many users complain, perhaps the decision will be revised. I have sent my opinion to them.

I am really feel so ba about this problem, it is not logic! Where to go and how to do?

I fully agree with Wolfgang R. Dick , project was a great tool even for several researchers and cooperating colleagues to have a common portfolio of research items, and interested people could find a bunch of related stuff at the same place. We liked the projects, as an interdisciplinary researcher, I have been participating in some of them.

I am skeptic, I think that they will not change their minds, unfortunately. RG created a "baby" that eventually has been used differently as they wanted (according to their message). In other words, the growing child was nice and lovely, but did not behave as intended. So then...

Too bad.

I received the following reply from a member of the ResearchGate Community Support concerning my expression of regrets about the retirement of projects: "While we understand your feelings regarding this decision, we are aiming to provide a better experience for researchers like yourself to showcase your work and stay up to date. To that end, we plan to release multiple features this year to make it easier to share updates, discover new research, and engage with topics. We hope you will join us as we continue to make ResearchGate a more useful tool for all researchers."

Dear Wolfgang R. Dick , thank you for sharing the reply you received from RG Community Support. Interesting. ("We switch off the light, and perhaps we give you candles. Later.") I have inserted the text ("While we understand...") to AI Content Detector (https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/) and the result is 65% human-generated content... Are we talking to humans? Kind regards, Balázs

Dear Balázs Székely , very interesting. Thank you for drawing our attention to the AI Content Detector (AICD) which I did not know before. I tried with five texts written by four different humans (including myself and you), and in all cases AICD found that this is 96 to 100% human-generated content. I tried a text written by https://chat-gpt.org/chat - AICD found 60% human-generated content. The analysis of two parts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium gave 30% (!) and 69% human-generated content. Are Wikipedia texts really written by an AI? How reliable is AICD? - By the way, AICD identifies texts by humans translated into English by an AI (https://www.deepl.com/translator) as 100% human-generated content.

PS: Your first answer (3 days ago) contains only 79% human-generated content. I hope you are a human ...

PPS: I asked ChatGPT, "How reliable is the AI Content Detector at https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/? The answer was: "As an AI language model, I am not able to provide a personal opinion. However, the AI content detector at https://writer.com/ai-content-detector/ appears to be highly reliable as it uses advanced natural language processing algorithms to analyze and evaluate the content for various parameters such as grammar, spelling, readability, plagiarism, and overall writing quality. Additionally, the platform is trusted by various reputed organizations and has received positive reviews from its users. However, it is important to note that no AI tool can guarantee 100% accuracy, and the results should be verified and evaluated by human experts before making any final decisions."

Going back to the original topic, see https://www.researchgate.net/post/Cancellation_of_Projects by Francois Le Chevalier: "We believe we can take the potential of Projects and make it even better": Well, why not making it better before killing it?

Here is another related discussion with several replies: https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_in_the_interests_of_research_to_withdraw_original_projects. Generally, it seems that many users are worried by the planned retirement of projects. During the last two weeks, a lot of questions about this were asked - see my replies to many of these at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wolfgang-Dick-3/answers.

[Off-topic] Lieber Wolfgang R. Dick , bin ich denn erwischt? :-) [end] Actually I have been playing much with that: e.g., delete your name from the text then it will be 93%. ;-) (R. Daneel Olivaw of Asimov smiles) MfG, Balázs

Hello Muhammad Abdullah Bin Masood (and all reading this discussion)

I go back to the point raised by Aparna Sathya Murthy - what other way is there to showcase your project/work in progress?

Muhammad Abdullah Bin Masood

Nice to note that you have raised the question. I had posted the question on Feb 25th: https://www.researchgate.net/post/RG_says_Were_retiring_Projects_on_March_31_2023_How_far_it_would_affect_you