william

…and finally

Some observations:

The site's been through endless iterative redesigns yet somehow has never felt "different".

Although I've only ever been a light user, and meta discussions aren't as prominent as TV and news chat, but over the years I can't remember seeing anyone moaning about design or layout changes, or indeed any that have annoyed me. It's just steadily got better.

I know a bit about forum software, but it's years and years since I bothered to look at what TV Forum is running under the hood and how much is/was custom written; it's always been so pleasantly white-label and it's always "just worked".

Perhaps there was one day I remember the site being down for a while? Years ago?

We haven't, to the best of my knowledge, had any major security issues either.

I can't really remember seeing any abusive posts, they're always already cleaned up by the time I looked. If there is spam, it's always removed faster than I can spot it.

The design has had so many pleasant Easter Eggs; I'm sure I didn't discover half of them.

And, most importantly, TV Forum has outlasted every other forum or discussion board I can think of, on any topic, and it has felt a very reassuring place to return to again and again over the last 20 years.

Thanks ever so much.

…and finally

Some observations:

The site's been through endless iterative redesigns yet somehow has never felt "different".

Although I've only ever been a light user, and meta discussions aren't as prominent as TV and news chat, but over the years I can't remember seeing anyone moaning about design or layout changes, or indeed any that have annoyed me. It's just steadily got better.

I know a bit about forum software, but it's years and years since I bothered to look at what TV Forum is running under the hood and how much is/was custom written; it's always been so pleasantly white-label and it's always "just worked".

Perhaps there was one day I remember the site being down for a while? Years ago?

We haven't, to the best of my knowledge, had any major security issues either.

I can't really remember seeing any abusive posts, they're always already cleaned up by the time I looked. If there is spam, it's always removed faster than I can spot it.

The design has had so many pleasant Easter Eggs; I'm sure I didn't discover half of them.

And, most importantly, TV Forum has outlasted every other forum or discussion board I can think of, on any topic, and it has felt a very reassuring place to return to again and again over the last 20 years.

Thanks ever so much.