I disagree about Discord. Realtime communication can facilitate much faster building, if everyone involved is actually.... involved, and if there's an active project lead to check parts and move things along.
It can also work on a forum. But there's just more waiting for replies from each participant, so it slows down the process. I've used forums for years, but I used IRC before that, so maybe I'm biased towards realtime communication.
I believe this project taking so long is the result of the project lead being inactive/semi-inactive, builders being slow about finishing their parts, and then the project changing hands twice, and for a month the project had no lead. Also the project moved to a different server since it's start. And apparently a number of the participants didn't even know about the project when it started that their names were listed here.
But I agree to the other points. I too would hate to see the project reset so far, especially if people don't want to commit to building parts again. That having been said, I feel some responsibility for suggesting the reset on Discord. It seemed like the logical conclusion when Flood pointed out a lot of the problems after GR's part (some of which I also saw when driving it - although I only suggested resetting it to the start of kamakaze's part). Flood also said those things couldn't be fixed. I guess because it's a fullspeed track and everything is so well calculated for speed. That also made sense to me.
The only parts I really have an issue with personally is the first jump in kamakaze's part, the unrespawnable CP in Osaka's part, and the flips in skyslide's part. I don't experience the issues of overspeed that Flood says he's getting.
Anyway, I'm not even building a part, and I have other projects to focus on, so I'll excuse myself from further discussions about this project* and wish everyone the best! I hope a good settlement can be reached for the good of the community. And I apologize if anything I've said or did may have contributed to this mess. The track is actually quite fun to drive with some great ideas. It'd be awesome to see it polished and completed.
*I will continue to monitor the project and update the first post.
Edit: GR, if you don't think things can get personal on a forum, I'd go back and read the July/August 2016 MTC thread.