Well I certainly do appreciate all the comments.

Brian I do moderate the forum closely, and that is a lot of time and energy, but since registration has been required, I would say that nuisance posts have gone down by 90%. It becomes pretty self policed when you have to put your name down and take the time to register before you post. In the same regard, I think that the change in atmosphere brought on by requiring registration has encouraged a lot of people to post that might not have otherwise. So that part is really a good thing.

As far as advertising goes, I certainly hope that it can always be that way. It does cost me money out of my own pocket to run this thing, but it's worth it. I can't promise 100% that there will never be ads ( I mean hey I work in the tech industry and layoffs happen ) but I'll do what I can. It certainly is nice not to have to answer to anyone for the site in terms of advertising. I do what I want with the site, and if I forget to update the main page for 2 months, then that's that and no one is on my case :)