[JasonB]

Facebook can be quite useful, and if we want to get young people interested in the hobby, or attract visitors here to the site, it's kind of essential.

I've always believed that there is a place for both ephemeral and evergreen content. Social media is of course the epitome of ephemeral content, it's here today and gone tomorrow, you get a few likes but after a few days it's gone.

Some of the links on our home page might be classed as evergreen content as they will hopefully be relevant for quite some time to come. In fact our rudimentary web stats suggest that our articles on the sidebar of the home page get a decent amount of traffic, and this tends to build up over time, rather than drop off, as ephemeral content inevitably does.

A forum that's sensibly organised, is I believe, the perfect middle ground where both can co-exist, and I think that's really important.

In short, we're trying to cover all the angles, and encourage everybody to get involved in this wonderful hobby in whatever way they see fit.

I still don't know why Facebook and Instagram have deleted our posts, but thankfully I still seem to be allowed to post my usual nonsense here.