I hate checking in after a couple days to find no new posts!

This is one of my favo(u)rite sites!

I had a rewarding day volunteering at our local Special Olympics event. The best moment was when a kid - twice lapped in the 1500 - called out as she passed us the second time (with everyone else finished): "I! Don't! Quit!"

-jk

I find it refreshing that there are places on the internet where there is posting activity only when something interesting is occurring.

This is rare - so many places feel the need to draw/generate 'traffic'. Even if there is nothing of substance happening.

Sounds like a great event. Love the anecdote.

The traffic is lighter than it used to be, but that kind of drop-off is pretty inevitable for a message board based around a product that hasn't been produced for almost 15 years.

We'll have fun in the meantime and see how long this ship keeps sailing! Much thanks to Tom and Andy.

I was wondering if it was because the folks across the pond were dealing with the WannaCry crap that was going on.

I still keep a tab open to the "off topic" board here. I check in most days to see what's up. Back in the day, I used to hang out in a number of other equivalent single-interest chat forums around other hobbies of mine, but I've left all those behind and still hang out here.

That said, I'm friends on Facebook and G+ with various subsets of the crowd here, and if we ever truly were going to kill off this board, we could consider replacing it with one of those. (Will G+ be long for this world? It wasn't particularly mentioned at all during Google I/O.)

It hasn't been particularly mentioned at all, nearly anywhere, for a long time.

There was a time when they claimed that Google+ was Google. Now apparently it's the Assistant. I don't think either will bear out as "The future of Google."

I still pop in from time to time to see what's going on. Nice to see most of the regulars still logging on.