Happens to the best of us.
From memory, we lost a significant number of regular posters, a few of whom eventually came back. As I recall, it was for three years or so. After that you could still pay the yearly fee and if you were doing so since the beginning and didn’t miss the due date, you got to keep the Charter Member title. Others who paid got a Member title and paid twice as much as Charter Members. Members paid $15.
Yeah well I had paid for two years in advance when we had switched. 
If it makes you feel any better, you did get your 2 years of no ads. Yeah, I know, doesn’t help, does it?
IIRC I had recently paid for my charter membership when I became a mod (mods didn’t have to pay for memberships). When that membership expired, the system automatically dropped me back to a guest and I was no longer a mod.
“You want to mod? Well, modding costs. And right here is where you start paying… in sweat.”
~Max
We’ll let it slide this once. God knows it never happens to me. 
While that is probably generally true, look at something like Reddit. It is just a MESS of text and a pain in the ass (for me) to navigate – it looks horribly outdated even to my Gen X eyes – but it’s a thriving and busy community with something like 50 million users logging into it daily (by their stats), and I doubt their readership is mostly 50+ somethings. (Looking it up, their biggest demographic is 18-29 with 36% of users, and the majority are 18-49. Only about 10% are over 50.)
I would think a move to Reddit would be just about preserving the SDMB brand rather than the community. I can’t imagine that much of the current community would transition over to Reddit. A SDMB site on Reddit may last longer than the current SDMB site, but it would be totally different than what we know as the SDMB. It would be like if a grungy biker bar asked everyone to head over to the local Applebees bar instead. The environment is so different that hardly anyone would actually make the transition.
I find reddit is much better if you put ‘old’ in place of the www.
Agreed; and it might not succeed in doing that.
Some of us tried to move what was left of the snopes boards to Reddit. We found it impossible to have message-board style discussion in that format. Nobody’s posted there in years now. (I check every few months these days.)
– you know what’s supposed to be even deader than message boards? Email discussion lists. But two of mine came unexpectedly back to life this year.
Look at what I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/sdmb/
I made a post so you can even say it’s active!
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Are you using “male” as an indication of sex or gender? It’s kind or, sort of, still used for sex sometimes but the assigned gender at birth construction uses it for gender confusing things.
Sex: Male
Gender: Non-binary, more specifically Agender
Ideally, male and female should refer to sex (along with intersex, or the specific types of intersex, for the exceptions). For gender we have a boatload of terms already — man and woman, boy and girl, guy and gal, etc as well as nonbinary and agender and demigirl and demiboy and so on.
Intersex people can’t draw attention to what it means to be intersex if people confuse it with being nonbinary, and to explain intersex you have to start with explaining what it is not, which is the physical dimorphism of male and female.
To be clear, if that was impartly in response to me, SDMB as a general message board would be pointless as a subreddit. I wasn’t at all suggesting moving to Reddit. It’s pushing back against the notion that yunnguns as a whole don’t like text-based message boards. Clearly, many do.
No worries. My comment wasn’t specific to anyone. Just a more general comment. The reddit comparison comes up a lot in discussions about the board, but the two sites have such a different feel that I can’t see this crowd making a home over there. Kind of like how biker bars and Applebee bars are both bars, but the people who enjoy one won’t necessarily enjoy the other.
And what’s the Dope in this simile? The biker bar or Applebee’s? 
The debating society, members of which smuggle drinks into the meeting room they use at the local library.
“Our”? You mean you do that?
I just took a look over there, that’s pretty bad. I used to be on snopes back in the really old days, around 2000. Lots of fun back then.
Boy, lots of interest there.
I think these two examples should rule out a switch to reddit. Just think of all the troubles that people had adjusting to Discourse, which is quite similar to vBulletin. Asking them to adjust to reddit would be a losing proposition.
No argument from me. If this place suddenly went tits up, there (and the GB) would at least be places to look for an announcement for a new replacement board using a more familiar format.