I'm pretty happy with it so far. It is really cheap to operate; costs me about three bucks a month, which is well worth it. I've grown to like the format a little better than I did originally, and the group of people on this forum is really top notch in my opinion. I share your view about the decline of the FE Forum, and I hope to keep adding more features and members to this site to continue to improve it.
There's really only one issue I have with this forum, and that is the number of spam membership registrations I get. You would think that with the registration requirements where you have to type in those distorted letters and numbers in a picture to submit your registration that the spammers would be largely kept out. Unfortunately that is not the case. This forum has been running for about a year now, and I am up to a total of over 14,000 membership applications! Obviously, the vast majority are spammers looking for a place to advertise Viagra or porn sites, or just to try to get online and harvest email addresses. I personally look at every membership application, and usually you can pick out the spammers pretty easily, but occasionally one gets by me and then I have to delete whatever bogus messages they post
What's worse is that in many cases legitimate member applications may get inadvertently thrown out with all the spam membership applications. Hopefully those people will email me and let me know that their membership hasn't been approved, so that I can take care of it.
Not to complain, though. I really enjoy this site, and am looking forward to it growing in content in membership in the future.
