I'll own up to my part, I've been here longer than Lorric (I think?) and I should've known better than to drag her up again.
Anyway! Back on topic!
I didn't have the same reading of Mobius' OP as it appears other people have had. As far as my interpretation goes, it looked just like a 'guys, dis ain't gonn' be a y is hlp dyin oh no thread, but what happened in my absence and why are page views down?' post. Which I think is perfectly reasonable. It got explained pretty well on the first page too.
I actually am surprised that this was a comparatively quiet year, given, as BW pointed out earlier, we had the release of Diaspora and WCS. I was about to post about how I'd agree with people who say there's just not that much to discuss about the FS retail campaigns, and then I looked back through Gen FS. It's a shame we don't have people posting their theories on the Shivans anymore or the tactical discussions of old, or the general 'guys this is my favourite mission' threads.
I can see how BP has become the platform for the execution of most of those discussions, though, and that's good. But I have to say that I miss them. I've been out of the loop regarding recent happenings in the FS world, and while part of me wants to talk of incentivising the replay of the FS campaigns to stimulate discussion on them, the other half of me sees how counterproductive that would be to allowing attention to be paid to our mod gems and asks myself the general question of 'how much good would that really be?' to which the answer I produce is 'not a whole lot, really'.
And that internal discussion really motivated me to play some FS, and then I remembered that I couldn't because it would take a grossly disproportionate amount of time, now that my desktop is nearing 7 years of age and runs Freespace as well as Michael Moore running a marathon.
/nostalgia
Edit: Just saw Axem's Vasudan porn/fsscreencap thread. Well done, that man! Also edit my fail /ing.