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…or are they moved to here? or were they simply deleted and unable to be retrieved?

They're archived, but still not released.

They have been archived, but the archive isn't available to the public yet.
If you want to recover a thread before the archive is released, see this topic.

well.. they erased the rabbit sprite.

Please dont necropost….

The old forums are available! You can find the topic that discusses it here.