If enough of the remaining known community members feel that the forums are enabling problematic behavior, rather than enlightening people to the positives and negatives, I’ll shut them down immediately.
We intentionally set up the boards from the start to be as privacy-enabling as possible. All traffic runs through Cloudflare, which strips off identifying metadata like IP. This decision was made when we launched because of the unknown legal risks that could put all forum members in danger.
Whether or not it was a good decision, is debatable.