[Margaret Pilkington]

Pompeylass, firstly my sincere condolences on your recent loss. It is a hard road you are facing now.
I hope you have good support from friends and family.

Some of what you say about the demise of the forum is true.
There are other factors though in this sad decline.
A lot of the younger posters migrated to Hyndburn Chat on Facebook.
They left this forum with a gaping hole in its contributors.

Also, when Mick Blacledge died the moderation of the forum was (to be kind) very hit and Miss.

Another factor was when the server was changed and there were elements of the forum that were missing. It was said that these would be restored, but the have not been.
The blogs were not restored. I was an avid blogger on the forum and had a number of regular readers. Gone!
It seems like there is nothing worth coming to the forum for unless you follow football.if the father of the owner deserts the forum, then you know things are not in a good state.

I don’t know what has happened to Less, he used to post acerbic comments on here regularly, but has not been on here for a long time.
He told us that if we did not post interesting stuff then it was ‘our fault’ that the forum floundered.

This is just my take on the issue.
I know that several of the die hards have tried to keep the place alive, but there comes a time when you have to stop watering dead plants…I think this is one of those dead plants.