[./Nomad]

1. The "change" wasn't really triggered. I happened to have a large sum of money and they happened to be selling the forum. It seemed logical to merge them into us, as we shared the same niche. There were obviously many people against the idea and it wasn't the best merge ever.

Wow, I had no idea that the forum was ever for sale, good on you for merging the forums and making everything work, instead of making people start from scratch. I can't even imagine how much of a pain that would have been. I can imagine there was probably quite a bit of unrest in the community probably more so from the older members, but it looks like things have turned out for the better!

2. We're not really under any obligation to comply with COPPA. However, this is a forum for people >13. We have logs, just like any other MyBB site (although you can have them disabled specifically for you if you're upgraded). You're responsible for what you post and what ends up in our logs - so be mindful of that.

I've run this forum for 3 years, so if you have any questions I am likely the most qualified to answer them.

Good to know and thank for for answering honestly. I'd say just from poking around a bit it looks like you run a very high quality forum, probably the highest quality of this particular niche around at the moment considering amount of activity and general cleanliness and lack of spam/shitposters. Oh and the custom theme is pretty cool, well done!

I think I'll stick around for a while.

I do have one question in particular for you, feel free to not answer it: Have you noticed a significant drop in activity in the past year or so? it seems like a lot of the big name communities have just kind of died off due to either lack of activity, lack of traffic, or poor leadership although I will say that last one doesn't seem to be a problem here at all.

Thanks for the reply!