Well, lets just go with the fact that you're not really able to compete with the fact that I'm the Leader of the SMF Customisation team and have been for a total of five years, and have been on the team as whole for 11 years. Combined with being a member of the company board of directors for five years.
So I've been around a long time, and seen practically every unofficial support forum fail. Many don't see the need for unofficial support forums when the official one is superior for reasons that generally, that's where the people who know what they're talking about are going to be, and that isn't exclusive to SMF either.
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