Nah, this forum is more or less dead. It's not really related to development proposals and all that. Now, it's just a tiny handful of people at this point. There's nothing to bring anyone here since there are many ways to follow development updates and more instantaneous ways to have a conversation with people of all viewpoints, which offer more free and neutral discussions. Discussions about anything now always end up taking a similar side/point of view, since most people here share the more or less exact same opinion and people who think outside of that little cube get told they're wrong, uneducated, unempathetic, fascists, racists, homophobic, right wing etc. There is an obvious slant towards middle-upper class, urban, white, neoliberal capitalist demographic within the discourse, which turns the vast majority of people off.
It started off alright and fun, with lots of differentiating views and opinions on what was happening in the region but turned into this tiny echo chamber of maybe a dozen regular users. That's nothing to do with how the forum was administrated by Spokes, of course, he kept it up and paid the bills all these years. It's down to the culture that was fomented and moulded by a segment of regular users.
It started off alright and fun, with lots of differentiating views and opinions on what was happening in the region but turned into this tiny echo chamber of maybe a dozen regular users. That's nothing to do with how the forum was administrated by Spokes, of course, he kept it up and paid the bills all these years. It's down to the culture that was fomented and moulded by a segment of regular users.