To me, the test of how well an exchange medium is working is not the number of members, the rate of joinings or the number of dropouts - or even the rate of participation - but rather how useful the medium is for those who are on it who urgently or desperately need an answer. And I would say that by that criterion, the current setup is very useful. We rarely see a question that goes out that gets no answers or no useful discussion. What is the reason for wanting to switch - other than email lists being an old technology??? Marcia Yudkin Goshen http://www.yudkin.com >>On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, 10:42:55 AM HST, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote: Time for another review of how HT works for you each. A long discussion always leads to people dropping off, many of whom forget this defeats the purpose of having more people to help, at the cost of a few uninteresting emails. We tried FB and Linkedin a while back, while little interest, given how time goes it could be 10 years. We also get few additional members so there are clearly not much PR happening. I have been looking for alternatives and found a quite a number of options:<< -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20200609/c7cdd36b/attachment.html>