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@onlyonepinman similar story for me (it’s nakchak BTW but on my admin account) the forums have deff entered a fallow period compared to the old days but that’s probably as much to do with adding projects to the site which is a much more natural fit for a lot of the old hobby type threads which often ended up with people high jacking what was essentially a hobby log thread. The thing with forums in my opinion is they all are cyclical in terms of activity.  Just look at the activity since Friday night (OK it’s basically a pay to play ploy) but still busier than its been for a while.  Maybe it will stay busy maybe it won’t.

@oriskany sad to see you go, but also understandable.  Here’s a question though what if each project created a discussion thread along side it in its own forum (like a lot of other sites project log systems) or is the per project post comments sufficient? As most projects comments are empty, and I have a hunch that project wide discussions would be better suited to a thread.  Especially questions which may not fit the content of the project post.

@sundancer what are these things you say WordPress does well 😉 meaningful emails is on my snag list, wouldn’t hold your breath for a systems change I pushed hard for a change when we were deving 2.0 problem is that its very heavily integrated with the user profile system @mentions, activity wall etc and its this system which also introduces the delay you mention, the code base doesn’t handle large numbers of signed in users very well and means we hit some scaling issues (have to balance operating costs vs ux) please bear in mind the dev team is Tom and myself, Tom’s pretty much running the store these days and this has always been a volunteer side gig to my day job so there is only so much that can be done at once, while juggling work and family life too.  Thing with discord is that it’s just one of many chat programs it’s nothing special tbh, a slightly user friendlier irc at best; will it be the in thing in a few years time.? probably not just like MSN messenger, icq, yahoo chat, aim, gchat, Skype, msn chat are all either Internet history or hemmoraging users apart from Skype covid gave it a reprieve cus of vid calls so I personally am not attached to it, I’ve been online long enough to know the more things change they more they stay the same and it will cease to be relevant while the site and forums will remain.

That said I’m making steady progress on a performance reliability and quality of life update for the site watch this space…