I just wanted to voice my support for Ubuntu Forums. As others have noted, it would be sad if it went away. This and other independent Linux forums have been invaluable for me (though I am still going through some issues- just go see my previous post haha!). I can understand that people may want to view the forum on the go and thus it is more convenient for them to do so on a cell phone. A responsive design should work for both cell phones and desktops/laptops. If that were the only problem, I'd say let's just try to migrate to another software or upgrade. Personally, the Login here drives me crazy. It constantly logs me out to the point that I had to log in several times just to reply to this thread. This is not how it used to be before. Perhaps its a cookie issue on my end, but I haven't been able to rectify it. But it's more than that.
People are preferring data mining "walled gardens" rather than independent sites. I think this change has been really bad in many ways, especially to independent groups. Even Reddit, which can be viewed mostly without a log in covers way too much content. You can't even find as many independent pop culture fan sites anymore. Even these have centralized into one big fan Wiki site. We need more independent sites and forums like this, not less. I would be happy to help in whatever way I can in between life and work. I've worked with forum software before (mainly Vanilla forums) and MySQL, but I am not an expert. I would also be happy to contribute a little coin if it helps.
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