His links generally don't generate too many quotes - so putting him on ignore basically excludes him from view.

From my pov, the irony is that the very person most responsible for <CG>'s decline is also the person who is saving it from having the plug pulled out.

At some point soon there will be a reckoning for the future of <CG> and some tough choices will have to be made.

Okay, that's a fair notion, I'll give you that. Nevertheless, I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Extract <Albertan> and this place is even more a desert of nothingness.

Interesting viewpoints and observations, <Z free or die>.

<HeMateMe>. You think a host has no responsibility towards the party they have invited into their house? Some of the guests have even paid for their seat at the table.

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Yes, I'm sure it's that, and not the crotchety members who bemoan and belittle other members just earnestly showing interest in chess.

But even he is not the reason, we had worse characters here. Lack of management and vision is the main reason, IMHO. No one that can make real decisions. For example, the design of the forums was already outdated in 2008. New users that have experienced discord and other modern forums, will never agree to set their bar so low. No notification system, no up votes, no personal message system, heck you can’t even search <your own> posts without paying premium fee. But admins aren’t even updating tournament and games on time, whose going to do all of that?

The idea of having a unique forum for each chess game, player, tournament, etc.., is a great idea and some of the conversations here were really top notch, even, I’d say, historically significant. But the site has to have a complete and total make over. The past is in the past.

I completely agree with every word of yours, <MrMelad>, and just wish that someone with authority and capability would act upon them. Unfortunately, during many years, similar pleas for change have been in vain.

Very soon after he was gone I crawled most of the site content to be able to preserve it in case it will get shut down. This data was first encrypted somewhere and now it is deleted.

I followed some of what happened next, but admittedly, not as close as I used to 10-15 years ago.

When someone started an effort to refactor the code and add new features I offered my help for free, as a SW and algorithms developer with almost 20 years experience, but didn’t even get a response.

Honorable gentlemen, I fully concur.

This website deteriorated since Life Master Goldsby had left and trolling flourished unchecked.

Hopefully likes of nok will be banished from these pages and we, the conesseurs of the game, will finally be free to praise Carlsen and other greats.

Until then though we need to suffer enormously under duress caused mainly by nok and big pawn.

Although this site has been left behind in many technological respects, it still has something to offer that I can't find anywhere else on the web, and that's why I've been frequenting for so long.

Though it's a tad depressing to put it in words like this, few things bring be as much joy as haunting these forums, cracking open a new tournament page, or just deciding on a whim to go through all the games from some particular historical tourney.