(September 25, 2018 at 4:45 pm)Tiberius Wrote: This was pretty much exactly how AF.org started. About 12ish years ago I created atheistforum.com (not atheistforums.com) with an acquaintance who ran the server etc. but played no part in the actual forum. For two years we gained members and then one day the admin section wouldn't load. I contacted the guy and he said he'd sold the forum to someone else, no idea who.
I already owned atheistforums.org so I set up a new server and the entire community moved over here, where we've been for the last 10 years.
I'm always going to be a part of AF, it's been a large part of my life, I've made friends through it, met my wife on it, etc. You can pry it from my cold dead hands before I ever closed it down.
Well- at least we can rely on the fact that you've poured your blood, sweat, and tears into this place yourself- so you're personally invested and not going to shut it down on a whim. So I assume that we can also trust that if you need help with something, you'll ask instead of... well, shutting it down on a whim.
Oof... fuckin' Seth, man... I don't know about him right now.