General Discussion

are sensible rather than paranoia.

Also sorry you found it necessary to ridicule DU as a "1990’s era message board."

It works very well.

I'm not a techie, but I taught myself enough code to build a website and used a vBulletin message board with it.

This type of software is ideal for discussions of particular areas of interest, especially when anonymous posting is allowed.

If you follow someone on social media, you'll inevitably see a lot of posts about subjects that don't interest you.

If you post about anything controversial on Facebook, you may find yourself in endless arguments with relatives unless you block them. Like an eternal argumentative Thanksgiving dinner, minus the food.

Why do you think so many DUers have been here 15+ years?

Maybe if you'd been here more than 8 months you'd understand that.

But if you start with condescension toward message board software, you probably never will.