Keep this site the way it was when Wayne was in charge, that's all I ask.
The problem is -- and it's one that's difficult to see unless you're standing where I am -- it's not the site, or it's running that has changed. It's the community as a whole.
A lot of people are now (finally) reaching that threshold between having a lot of friends here, and accepting that the Amiga isn't going to be the next Windows competitor.
Yeah, I know, it's 2010, not 1993, but I'm serious. A lot of people in this community still believe that the Amiga still has a shot as a commercial platform, and the resulting backlash has very much become like a virus.
One devoted follower "gets it" and gets depressed about it, he shares that depression with two friends. They "get it" and share it with four friends, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
In the end, what you end up with is a few dozen people who are still hanging around because they always have, and spreading their discontent to everyone else because they can't see the Amiga having a future any more.
Honestly, it's one of the smaller reasons that I left. I -- like most of the troublemakers here -- just got to where, even if I wanted to be helpful, I found myself being more negative in replies than I thought was justified.
That being said, the owners aren't changing anything.
They're just taking the same stance against the negative trolling that I should/would have taken had I stayed. Trouble is, at the end of my ownership here, I honestly didn't care enough to do so any more, so in that regard, the new owners are 10 steps up on me.
