@Alex Papadimoulis said:
I chose CommunityServer to power this website because it had stellar reviews from a lot of people. These people obviously never actually used the software.
I'm not willing to change platforms because that would take way too much time to migrate everything and I doubt I'd be able to get the user accounts to stay. So, we're stuck on CS.
There is also, of course, the possibility that these reviewers were simply shills.
Something can be said in this thread about the whole captcha mess. That you have about a minute to post before you'll be told the captcha failed is one for the FAQ, should such a FAQ be found by unregistered users. That the captcha image disappeared entirely for a while is another one for the books.
At least I haven't seen any pizza posted in this thread. I hope we can keep it that way, but that seems a bit much to hope for. (And how long does it take people to figure out just how to embed their preferred emoticon.)
Two questions (without daring to resort to any HTML lists): (1) if one were to choose new forum software today, what would one choose (with any applicable reasons, experiences, etc); (2) While I support Alex in not migrating history to any new platform, I wonder (okay, it's only loosely a question) what support there might be for allowing him a "clean break: re-registering under a new forum environment, closing off this environment, and perhaps linking this old world under a static link to a historic site of some sort.