I took a break from here for a lot of years and it is not the same as it was, it used to be better, now it's just people fighting about FT8
This forum is old bald white male baby boomers and older generations arguing over a comb. Younger and better educated generations want nothing to do with it. This site is dying like the hobby. The site owner knows it is just a liability generating no cash. There are no upgrades in the future. Just a matter of time until the lights go out.
These are quite valid statements, unfortunately. The problem that this forum solves is that it's in a centralized location rather than on regular social media. Facebook groups are scattered to the winds and tend to grow so unwieldy that they can get out of hand, with hundreds of posts per day, and individual threads that are difficult to track. There isn't really a sense of community that we have here.
Personally I'd like to see a DX-centric web forum that doesn't look like it went live in 1993, that caters to a wider audience of DXers, and with sub-forums specifically targeted to those with high country counts, a needs forum, a tech forum, DXpeditioners and DXpedition-chasing topics, a welcome mat for new DXers, and just general chat like we have here. Unfortunately this place can turn into a bit of a vipers' nest at times, and we've lost more than a handful of name-brand DXers/DXPeditioners who have gotten tired of the same infighting and BS that crops up each time there's big DXpedition. Is there a solution to this? I hope so.