Confession:
I am an old
Escapist refugee, in disguise. Well, it is more in the nature that I decided one day to stop lurking and start 'contributing' to the Bay, a long while after the former playground became uninhabitable.
From this perspective, the Bay looks quite live and healthy. Perhaps not to the degree that it was, but this sort of forum environment, as lovely as it is, is no longer in step with the times. It is all reddits and snap-chats and so forth.
That does not particularly matter. Even if a good old forum is not what it once was, it can be very lovely indeed. The pond might shrink, but for the creatures that prefers such an environment to the modern up-down vote stream, it will still be a good pond.
But let us hope that no one drains it to fill a cistern.
If y'all convince Today to change the forum software I'm outta here.
Most forums are pure cancer. The current setup is probably as close to ideal as I've seen.
...We should start a Bay12 Habbo Hotel room.
Good heavens, imagine a hotel run on Fortress logic. My word... Of course, the absence of magma and wild animals will put a stop to the worst excesses, but one shudders to imagine what could replace them. Well. One shudders in fear, and shivers in delight.