I've been on Facebook (and enjoying it) for a couple of months. It took me a while to find the controls where I could turn off the option to receive an email for every single stupid little message/notice/whatever. FB provides a large number of different options you can turn on or off (e.g., you can turn quiz results off and status updates on), but I don't believe there's an option to request email notification for specified individual discussions but not others. As someone mentioned above, that's an option that would be welcome at Mudcat.

Accessibility to the public is an interesting issue. I like how Mudcat is open to anyone and everyone, for posting as well as for reading. Facebook is at the opposite extreme: only members get to see anything at all, and only "friends" have access to certain of each other's info. (On FB, if you set up an "event" page for a gig, you're given a URL you can pass along to non-members, allowing them acces to that one FB page. However, stangers/browsers cannot find their way to any FB page without such inside information.)

We used to have Member Profiles here at Mudcat. I had posted a meager amount of info about myself, and was just about ready to add more when The Crash occurred and the feature was permanently disabled. Reinstating the profiles would be nice; installing a new member-profile format as part of an overall "facelift" might be even nicer.

Good for you Max, for continuing to contribute time and effort to maintaining Mudcat. But: let's not change it TOO much now, please!