Well said.
And agree.

For myself...
over the last year now..
I am here far less than I used to be.
- coming to help new n8x0 users who post questions in need of help...
(But since n8x0 beginner help is pretty much automated with my walkthrough..There isn't much reason there...any longer...)
- to check on the Leste project.
- The odd time a post elsewhere...
- But mainly for convo in the final countdown ..

I can't see "leaving" ...leaving.
not yet ...
(In the past I couldn't conceive of leaving this place ...but..Neither could I conceive of this place turning into what it is ...either...)
When the final countdown goes quiet ...definitely.
When the topics of discussion are virtually wholly non maemo / nxx0 topics...definitely ..
When discourse breaks down ...definitely.
When there are fewer folks I know here (as has been happening the last few years more and more...) ...definitely.

And on the whole ...that day seems to be coming.

Under normal circumstances I would always come back to utilize the subforums of the nxx0, the downloads, garage, and the odd time the wiki...

But if Leste ends up going quiet here.
If dialogue in the nxx0 subforums goes quiet ..
and folks I know are going or gone..

then that is the time to update my cloned sections of TMO
and utilize them offline.
As it is..I have the nxx0 subforums, wiki, garage and downloads cloned as of a few years ago..
and as a precaution... I still have about 10 TB left on my personal external storage meant just for this purpose...
Though I doubt I will need that much extra now...


I have no illusions of this place "becoming something it wasn't"...
Its been going down this road deliberately for years ...since the non maemo inclusion of Jolla sub forum threads...and their ilk.

So ..
perhaps this fall or winter...
perhaps next winter...
perhaps in many years to come..
I am playing it by ear...
I'll know exactly when I have no interest whatsoever in coming here anymore.
Doesn't mean I won't stop using my nxx0's daily...
nor does it mean I won't download or install stuff to mess and putter with...
It just means ..when that dreadful day comes...
I will have no valid reason for coming back here...

all that being said...
hope you aren't at that point just yet..
Hope you don't go just yet wicket