I do believe the strangeness (not worse, just different) of the new board has suppressed some participation, possibly even lost some members which has emphasized and perhaps extended the lower participation and interaction.
However, I don't believe, flat out refuse to believe something as small as a board format can have a significant continuing impact in the comradery of this forum and expect the synergy will pick up naturally over the next couple of months.
I do believe the new hardware and such will nurture more interaction in the community and hopefully we will see an influx of new users as I have been more concerned with what I see as an apparent trend of our community of having less and less new members.
A negative trend there obviously bodes ill for both our BB and our editing company of choice.
I still believe this is the friendliest BB on earth and I will have John the Giant rip off anyone's head that disputes that!
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