On 10/16/2021 at 12:46 AM, grayling said:although i don't think this forum would be really lively even if discord wasn't around. i would never expect this place to become as populated as an active SPUF forum
You may be right, but I've lurked on here in the early 2010s and it used to be lot more lively. Most of the old guard is gone now except for a few mainstays.
Sometimes an overzealous political grifter trickles in and lightens up the place for a bit and I half wish that they would show up more. The passionate types are a lot of fun to engage with, but someone always calls the mods whenever the fun reaches its zenith and cramps everyone's mojo.
Maybe we can rebrand as a crazy hobo encampment that provides Soapbox as a Service. Take the discourse I mentioned here and in the OP and just blow it up. Anything but a slow and boring death.