There's no way a big board with a lot of people will ever beat a small board with all your friends. That's impossible, and we'll never aspire to do that. EoFF is a biggish place where you meet a lot of people and maybe meet new people and maybe talk about stuff and maybe have fun. It can't be all things to all people, and it never tries to be. Aiyon and the other spin-off boards are awesome to the people who go. But if Aiyon ever got huge (BoBo won't let that happen, but IF), it'd start to have all kinds of drama and wusses posting lame crap about how the board "should" be run and just a lot of people saying a lot of stupid things. That's how that works out. --BOU

I think the opposite can be true too though. I think most small boards that intend to stay small forever that consist only of a small clique of friends aren't much more than a glorified long-term private chat session, and it's next to impossible to talk about anything serious, and it also seems even harder for new people to join in than it does in places like this. Meanwhile those of us who don't belong / don't have a friend who has his or her own personal tiny MB would like to have somewhere nice to go. I don't think it's right to say that one is better than the other.

EoFF was half fun, half drama from the very beginning. That's the only reason I like it. The only reason this place lasted at all is because the first group of 7 or 8 of us actually cared, in a 100% wuss-like drama sort of way. Without that "drama" none of us would be here talking right now, and there would be no Aiyon or ASC or anything.