The main problem with these forums is because nobody really gives a crap about the original purpose of the JCF, which in case you forgot, is Jazz Jackrabbit 2. The game is now almost 7 years old. Nobody wants to talk about it anymore. So, the forum is struggling to find something else to talk about. A great forum can only be great if the people have direction and a common interest. Now that JJ2 is no longer an interest of the people, everybody is divided. Personally, I like to talk about sports and music. The forum has not adapted. The structure of the forum is still that of a forum in which people are inclined to talk mostly about JJ2. The people have their own different interests, but it is all a part of Miscellaneous Stuff. Two or three people will say something about their own personal interests. Then everybody else joins in and, well, expresses their disinterest on the topic. Nobody ends up talking about what they like to talk about because it ends up in a pointless argument over why something is stupid or not. We could have hundreds more active posters if they weren't disencouraged by the veteran members of the JCF. We should be mature and encourage people to talk about whatever they want to, no matter what it is. Eventually, the JCF might develop into a board not about any one specific thing, but about everything. I'm sure many of us have dreamt of the JCF community developing and growing out of being a mid-small size community which it has been for its entire life. It will never grow with its main focus being JJ2, only shrink. The game is not getting more entertaining, it's getting less. That's being reflected in the forums. To improve, it must expand, and we have to be very open to this expansion.