There was (is?) a Discord server setup for us. It was designed as a 'fire escape' in case the Zone went down. Is it still in use? I've lost the link for it.
Similarly, does anyone have links or invites to any other Daz Discord servers?
Aldo's site? If that's the one you're thinking of, I haven't been there in at least a year. Don't even have the link anymore. There are peeps here who were very active there back in the day. I don't want to call them out by name but if that's the one your looking for, PM me and I'll give you their member ID's so you can ask them.
Also, almost all of them were using F95 as well, including Aldo.
Yeah. I use zonegfx myself almost exclusively, but it's good to have a backup in case of an emergency and 3d-load was one of the better sharing sites on the net. But you are right that it was just content pretty much stolen from zonegfx and other places.