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AuroraStorm · #29 04-03-2012, 08:59 PM

I"m still on 3.7.3 and was going to start upgrading this year, but I've lost so many members to Facebook that I'm holding back to see what will happen. I'm going to hold on for another year but by 2014 and my membership percentage is under 10%, I'll shut down. It's simply not worth the cost to sustain a dead board...I've even had to shut down new registrations because the fast-adapting spam bots are damn near out of control...

DANG YOU FACEBOOK!! DANG YOU!!

But if I had to be truthful about it, message boards only have so long of a shelf life...boards that are 10 years and older are almost rare and hard to find. I knew that going into it and I've been up for 6 years and I'm surprised that I had that long of a run...

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