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I have quite a bit of experience with forums, mailing lists ("listserves"), groups, etc. and one thing I've observed over the years is that these things can be very, very sensitive to disturbances such as software crashes, platform changes, and the like. I've seen several busy, active forum sites that had software crashes where everybody had to re-register, and they just died. Same thing with some forums that changed to a new software platform. For example, going from a threaded layout to a PhBB-type design. Even though the new platform was 500% better, it just killed them dead, like going from 50 posts a day to zero, or maybe 1 or 2 posts a week.

That could very easily happen here, if it hasn't already. I hope this one stays around; the level of conversation on here is several layers above the drivel on other sites. Online forums are very touchy critters; their change-tolerance is about zero.