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Chockstone CPR and Defib 1-Nov-2021 At 10:22:30 AM PeterW

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It probably doesn't help that there's a lot less climbing at present (between COVID and area bans), so there's less to discuss.

But to answer your question, I think the forum software isn't helping. Not so much in earth-shattering major ways, but just throwing little hurdles in the way that make it "not worth effort" of posting anything more than a one sentence response.

For example:
- Not recognising "https:" as a URL identifier so clickable links aren't auto-generated.
(This should be trivial to fix in the existing PHP code!)
- The hassles including images in a post, especially for people unfamiliar with HTML.
- A nasty one is the "suspicious content" filter which seems far too aggressive in blocking legitimate posts. Especially when it doesn't explain why!
(Reminds me of an email filter at work that blocked outgoing emails containing "xxx", not helpful in a programming environment where "xxx" was often used as a placeholder!)

So yes, I think updating or replacing the forum software would help, although I'm not sure it would help enough.