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How would becoming a paid service rather than a free one with voluntary donations affect the legal situation? I don't just mean for OSA.

Legal issues aside, what about a two-tier approach where it's free but paid subscription gets you things which are currently available after a length of time?

Hated mushrooms when I was a kid, later learned to like them in a variety of dishes, but the British Fried Breakfast treatment of them is rank.

I hate that they’re so hateful, I hate that there’s a world view which is so hateful, so reductive, so insular. The obsession and identity with, and of, categorical black and white thinking. The dismissal of any idea, fact, or reason for nuance.

I have almost the inverse of this; my family is cool, except for my little brother managed to turn out like this despite his upbrining. On paper he has a high IQ but that attitude turns him into a functional moron in most situations. Says things like "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" and "What did the rainforests ever do for us?", and questioning any of this just sends him doubling down on stupidity in the most basic and anti-intellectual manner, so family gatherings where he's there mean carefully avoiding any conversational topic you care about or are even midly interested in. Very different when he's not there.

I read Conclave so that you don't have to. Starts well, keeps it up for a while, abruptly descends into sloppily constructed melodrama and never recovers. Plot twists are clumsily telegraphed early on; if you're the kind of person who worked out what was happening in The Sixth Sense when Bruce Willis appeared on a park bench, the only susprises here are how cheesily it's done. Serious issues are reduced to MacGuffins. There was definitely a moment where I'd have thrown this at a wall if I had a physical copy. Disappointing.

For an unusual (to Brits) dessert that has the kind of richness that is traditional at Christmas, I can recommend Carrot Halwa. Healthier than it tastes, if you see what I mean.

Kindle. You'll never go back

There's at least one problem: you can't throw an ebook at the wall.

Teams "groups" aren't even consistently shit. You can't count on everybody in the group seeing an email message, so they're worse than useless but you may not realise for a while.

This sounds as if it could foster bullying and cliques in a way that would be hard to track but unpleasant to experience. A smaller, selected group of moderators can also indulge in some of that but at least they'd be accountable.

The answer to the question "Can he get any worse" is always "yes".

Christ. Also, their comitted fans in the comments defending this.

Used to see that alot on mailing lists, back when they were one of the main methods for discussion. Some dork would create email aliases for each mailing list they were on; they'd use the alias "Linux" for a Linux mainling list, "Java" for a Java development list and so on. Annoying at best and would make some people assume they were the list admin. "But it makes sense to me and helps me set up filters" - yeah, fuck off. Presume it's the same lack of a thought process.

I know this is a repost, because it was me the first time.

Wow I didn’t know Lynchman was in late teens. Incredible

Peak time in life for people wanting to reinvent themselves, if you think about it.

I have a feeling the following is not wrong, but I invoke @Oliver Schick for comment.

That's a live feed, so I assume you mean this one: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rqv248pxpo

Whilst I don't disagree, I have the server stats and cache hit stats that show this place was nearly always "stuff posted in the last week"

Context shapes things, and I'd argue that the existence of the older and wider content shaped the ephemeral chat, but Discord doesn't even scale to the many subforums and threads here. This forum thrived and brought many people in despite a misanthropic core of assholes who even tried to sabotage the compass drinks idea, because they didn't want anybody who wasn't here in 2007 to be involved at all. Discord doesn't scale in a way that gives that much room.

Seems like @Velocio now thinks discord will inevitably be the new home

It was already there and is an easy choice. It's also a terrible choice that doesn't have the capabilities t o replace what is here.

Discord is no good as a replacement for this place. To the extent that it works at all, it's for ephemeral chat while people find other people to join a session in a multiplayer game.

I know you've said you're here to give advice to whoever tries to rescue the site by finding it a new home, but that ain't gonna happen. I mean, I'm surprised this thread hasn't been derailed yet.

and a life outside of running websites.

Well, if you're going to actually ride your bike... there's no helping some people.

Anything in a skirt.

Drop bears are real.

A Private War, being a bit topical since Assad's fall. The directing and script is a bit simplistic, but Rosamind Pike's performance is great (and she's almost unrecognisable). Best supplemented with "Storyville: Under the Wire".

I'm a company director, school governor and a charity trustee

To what extent is the potential rescue plan technical and to what extent administrative? Even on the technical side, I'd imagine the challenge is more one of finding somewhere new to host micrososm and deploy it, than more development. Does somebody smart have a roadmap?