My pessimism just spiked.
The Lounge may be our little refuge from The Dark Forest, but for the last few days the Front Page has been showing 1-3 members and ~500 lurkers. What's the simian/silicon ratio amongst the lurkers? I presume they consume bandwidth for ad revenue.
The link to Maggie Appleton is golden.
maggieappleton.com/basb
So the advise is meet people/touch grass. I think there's two members that I've met in person [I never see one of them in The Lounge]. Whelp anyways, [<algorithmic incoherence] for reference here's how my nieces saw me in the mid-90s.
That's before I built custom brackets for the Bug Bearer bike rack. And just look at that door gap.