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There are so many open source forum code packages, packed with features. And I bet there are more than a few coders who are members here and would gladly volunteer a little time to fix/tweak the the SG site. Why doesn't that happen? Whenever I've suggested features, they were either ignored or I'd get some longtime members saying, "Most of us don't want/care about that." For example, I'd love a simple PM feature here so that you could back-and-forth message one on one without replying to some old non related thread. I was told, by many members, "Just use Steam for that. We don't want it here. We would get too much spam." And when I say, "It could have a blacklist/whitelist feature as well," it's just ignored. It's not my site, so it's not up to me. But I do find it odd that there is so much resistance/apathy towards change.