Geez guys.

Hi both.
I could pay £100, but could not justify more , I am afraid .
I discovered your site more than 10 years ago and have never regretted the posts or chats and friendships I have made here .
Even some games have aided my growth and happiness .
I would be sad to lose all that and can help more .
Good luck and thank you , as always, Dave.

@Panther Yeah, let’s try it in a few places and see how it goes. 3 max is good.

@barnee Chinese bots having a field day with A&A.org it seems. :-°(

@SuperbattleshipYamato well it was alot different back when we allowed Politics to flourish. Mary and Jennifer used to get into great battles, then we had Sexual Harassment Panda, Mr. Smith, et al who posted like 30 times a day. I recall about 3 others who were nasty but eventually drifted off under a rock.

What we really need is a really good feed of suggested topics and an email campaign to reveal them. Reddit absolutely mastered this. I used to be an occasional Reddit … then the emails came and they were relevant and fun and I enjoy getting that email. Actually, I mostly just go direct to Reddit now.

Looking back. I probably should’ve selected Discourse as the forum engine. The deployment strategy, at the time, was more complex than I wanted. I had a grudge against Ruby on Rails projects (kinda still do). But the UI was clean. I bet the API is cleaner and less breaking. Making another change might cause more churn though.