Hi, all. Haven't been around for a while, and figured I ought to stop by and mention why. It's nothing to do with the software or the people working on it, or the management over at the main site or anything else like that ... it's simply that forums are a lot less popular than they once were.
I currently have three 'real' forums (and one test forum that I haven't touched in a year and a half). One has had no traffic at all for at least 5 or 6 years. Another has had only me on it for about the same amount of time (I use it as a sort of online blog, and even if I am the only one who reads it, that's ok.) The third, my main forum, sees maybe five posts a month on a good month. While there are exceptions, for the most part Facebook seems to have replaced forums.
With so little activity on any of my forums, it is really hard to find the time and energy to spend a lot of time working on the forum software, hence my kind of drifting away from here.
I'll probably try and spend a little more time on my test forum, then see what I have to do to modulate my main forum (still running 2.4 and getting spam memberships (though no spam posts) out the wazoo) over to it to kill off the spam, and just use that for the rest of eternity.
While I still think YaBB is the greatest forum software in the universe, no activity is a real downer. :