A few people have voiced concerns about wanting to preserve the community we have here. While I share their sense of loyalty and camaraderie, the sad fact is that no community ever stays entirely consistent over a prolonged period of time. I've been a member of FES for almost eight years now, and I've seen the core group of "regulars" go through dramatic changes in membership several times since then. It goes without saying that very few of us from back then are still around now. What I'm getting at here is that because members quit, we need to be able to replace them, for lack of a better word, with new ones. And it's there that this website struggles, because we simply aren't getting any new members beyond fleeting angry noobs. There's just too much competition with Daniel's site, which is of course the one that's gotten all the mainstream media attention and therefore the bulk of the traffic. We'll be the ones getting that traffic if we merge, and given the capable leadership we have here, we might very well be able to turn it into something far greater than Daniel ever did.