Thread to talk on for moderators

[AndrewP]

"Back in the day" - this forum was a conduit for new clients to MWD practice. I still clearly recall Christy's welcome message. A great many people were helped by her services with professional help that is well beyond the capabilities of an anonymous peer community.

A good friend of mine who I met here was one of the people who was helped and guided by MWD's team. They ended up not being able to save their marriage but became a much stronger and whole person who saw things a lot more clearly than they had in the past.

I do believe that this software is indeed free and undoubtedly the relatively few albeit annoying technical issues could be solved by someone who has knowledge of, or the ability to search into issues for UBB. I would expect that the issue with notifications are because they're not paying for an email service that this board could connect to. The edit button is undoubtedly just a configuration tweak. But that's just a guess based on 40 years building and supporting software.

There would be costs though to host the server, costs for consultants when they upgraded etc. There are also costs when issues from here boil over and the MWD team has to get involved so certainly not a "free" site. It's often said that if you're not the customer, you're the product.

From a business point of view, I'm not seeing the cost/benefit any more of this place. Back in the day before there were so many options for communities to connect, yes. Many other similar forums have moved to various public and semi-private homes. I would doubt that a fresh client has gone on to make use of MWD team's services in a couple of years now.

A lot of days I feel like we're mostly just a few old-timers hanging around the pub at the end of the night hoping that nobody wants to do karaoke. The occasional person wanders in, all the old folks at the bar stare at them curiously and they quietly leave.