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The last thing I want to see here is for IIS to turn into a chat system like Discord or FarceBook.
Have you ever tried searching for anything on those platforms?
If you're not watching the endless streams of text (yes, they can be broken out into channels and sub-threads), you miss stuff. There is no way those platforms can replicate what we have here.
My preference is to keep IIS as a forum, like it is now, with all the separate topic areas and (most importantly) the search capabilities. This feature alone saved me hours of frustration when I was starting out - simply because everyone else had gone through the same thing and provided answers here.
I'm also aware of the massive task in migrating the site to a new home. I've quickly added up how many posts there are, across all the areas (and I've probably missed some). There are over 1.4 million posts, many with attached images, and then there are all the articles, reviews and what-not written by members.
To lose this resource would not be a good outcome, in my opinion.
Regards,
V.
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