I decided to continue paying for this board to keep it ad free and the extra goodies it brings, but not to pay for the forum.

For now, it's being held hostage for 30 days (like 20 more days now) unless I decide to go paid. It is all still there. I can see it as the admin but to everyone else it is unavailable. When the "grace period" is up, it will figuratively dissolve as if dumped into lye and be gone permanently.

The price was $45 a month at first, perhaps due to its size, but now it is $15 a month. However, I still don't think that I want to pay to keep a forum where so few posters use and predominantly outside peepers wasted inordinate amounts of time stalking, copying, and reading. Gawd knows why, but there it is.

If I took off the restricted admission of registration only, it might be hopping, who knows? But it's not worth paying for IMHO. I can't stand the type of posters who frequent the "sister boards" where there is no registration and literally, almost anything goes!

I would consider letting someone else have it because it already has SO many nosy eyeballs on it, but I'm not sure that I'd want to watch what it became.