SM forums not working?

[Garth Wilson]

Quote:(I am proud to live in a part of the world where we write dates the proper way and therefore have no Pi days ;-) ) and as usual too unsmart to contribute to your challenge. Which of course I read and tried to understand!

It has to do with how we say the date; for example, New Year's Day is "January first," and Christmas Day is "December twenty-fifth."  Apparently our military says "one January," and I think, "Of course!  How many Januaries did you expect to see in a year, anyhow?!"

Quote:there does seem to be a general decline in activity across discussion forums on the Internet. A lot of people seem to have moved over to Facebook and other social media websites.

I got off of facebook a couple of years ago because of its censorship.  It has various problems as a forum too though, as there's no categorization, no way to do code listings with monospace and white space, poor search, no ability for a lot of the features we enjoy here, like inlined images, bold, underline, italics, hypertext links, etc., and fb seems to think that nothing over a week old matters anymore.

On another forum I moderate, a new member expressed pleasant surprise that it was quite active, and said he thought the same thing as above, that phpBB-style forums were dying and everyone was going to these other less-suitable platforms.