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> it was something that really interesting people were focused on as a platform for writing, design and creativity

I've been spending less time there recently, but these last few years I've been part of various communities which were all about sharing creative writing; so it's still there, but maybe not as visible?

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Exactly; the ham radio community still exists, too, and there are still interesting technical problems to crunch on in that area (I imagine, I haven't actually touched a radio since getting my license in 2001). But the "scene" is different. In the larger cultural scheme of things, it's a backwater, not an attractor of new talent and fresh thinking.

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