03-03-2014, 05:44 PM
Let me put it this way. This forum is forming the core of a greater PBM community, which is in many ways more important than the magazine. But the magazine -- wow -- it is thrilling to watch it grow and refine! It is becoming an artifact of the PBM world of these times, and I fervently hope you keep it going!
So while the forum has enabled the community to gel, the magazine is the proof of PBM's nascent resurrection. I don't think you'd have been able to create such a fine magazine without having built the forum first, and without the forum the magazine would be in danger of losing momentum. So the two go hand-in-hand in my mind.
I guess I love both equally. I read the magazine with great anticipation each month, and I read each new post here with milder-but-more-frequent anticipation throughout the month. And now that you've forged both, I think I can speak for the community in saying that we'd all be crushed if either one were to disappear!
So while the forum has enabled the community to gel, the magazine is the proof of PBM's nascent resurrection. I don't think you'd have been able to create such a fine magazine without having built the forum first, and without the forum the magazine would be in danger of losing momentum. So the two go hand-in-hand in my mind.
I guess I love both equally. I read the magazine with great anticipation each month, and I read each new post here with milder-but-more-frequent anticipation throughout the month. And now that you've forged both, I think I can speak for the community in saying that we'd all be crushed if either one were to disappear!