Here's some background: a couple of years ago when I first arrived, there was just one FES forum, with all the same arguments and inability to answer difficult questions that it has now. It was run by Daniel, but many people didn't like the way he did things and campaigned for him to be removed. Because he basically owns the website, they couldn't do that, so all the users whose names began with P went off and built their own forum. Most of the more aggressive FE'ers and the ones who support moonshramps went over to that one, leaving this one with about 20% of the activity it previously had. This one is Daniel's original. The new one is run by the P people.
That's not strictly accurate. None of the people who were involved in setting up the new site wanted Daniel gone; we merely wanted technical control of the forum delegated to someone who has both the ability and time to do it right. At the time, the only person in charge with a claim to ability was John Davis but he didn't really have the time to do what needs to be done and responded rather aggressively to suggestions and criticism. It looks like he came around on the latter since then, but he still clearly has no time to maintain this forum, judging by its overall state.
Most of the regulars and serious FE'ers did switch over to tfes.org (some immediately, and others started migrating over time), but if you do as little as look at our posts, you'll see that we don't have any of the moonshramp or "birds
are dinosaurs" shitposters. They simply disappeared altogether a while before the schism. At the time, we considered ourselves to simply be an alternative forum for the same society, with the hope of becoming the only forum soon. Daniel's response to that was a demand for us to stop using his branding and forum theme. Since Daniel doesn't own the theme and its author - Tintagel - gave us permission to use it, we ignored that part of the demand, but we did change our logo and effectively established our identity as a separate society.
hahaha, I think I'll change my name to pooster.
Good thing that our superior forum lets you do that with no hassle, right?
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