Taparip

[Labster]

Man, I forgot about how you saved our forum with that, Lab.  Much kudos, once again.

Though I still need to go through and repost a bunch of my fiction that got horribly munged in the serial migrations.  I'm pretty sure it was all crapatalk's fault, anyhow.

Some of it was my fault, most of it was their fault.  I still have the originals in HTML form if you want me to give it another go.  Before I had to a chance to screw it up, but after they did.

The unfortunate part of web forums is that they're really hard to monetize, so only a few companies can exist that provide them.  So we get these large mergers, as they get big enough they can provide a low enough level of service and product at scale that they can survive.  But the upside is that forums are hard to monetize because they are not outrage machines, but a place where you talk to the same people, over and over again.  The format avoids mindless scrolling, and resists bragging or quick comebacks.  Instead forums get a community to create something together.

So thanks for being the kind of person who make me care enough to want to save a community.  Even if it's just saving it from gray-on-gray text and generally shitty UX.  That goes for the rest of you, too.