I started comming here about 7 years ago now, for me it was a great resource that helped me push the boundaries that came with my A1200 to new levels.
I signed up a few years later, I watched in abject horror as the site was defaced by people who should have known better... But still this is a massive resource for anyone wanting to get to know this very odd little computer that captured our imaginations.
When I outgrew my Amigas, and moved onto BeOS I found that the people here, the community that gathered here, the flexability of this site kept me comming back, I could go to specifically political sites but frankly there are very few out there that are as... calm as this one.
For me this site is something of a home from home. Its a place to relax, to discus and laugh in. As Karlos said so eloquently, this place is unique in all the net.
I also have to agree with McNorris, to seperate this place into a political forum site and an Amiga only site to me would be a mistake of monumental proportions to my mind. I also can't honestly see myself bouncing into two sites where one used to do.. I suspect that beyond a couple of very close friendships (you folk know who you are) I would likely drift away at a rate of knotts from the resulting {bleep} children of this site.
This site has survived precisely because it has changed with the communities tastes, how many other amiga centric sites can say that? As you yourself pointed out Wayne, the previous heavy hitter that was the Amiga Web Directory died a death, this site has moved beyond the amiga centric world that it started out in, AmigaWorld, well I wish it and the people who go there all the best, but at best its a shallow imitation of this place for people firmly stuck in a pre C= banrupcy era in my view.
Wayne, I implore you, if you never listen to another word I say, please listen and take note of what I'm about to say: Don't break up this wonderful place.
