"...in the wider sense, irrelevant.

No, Captain Ginger. "...in the narrower sense".

The fact that Max could pull the plug on it all is important and I'm very grateful that he hasn't. I'm sure at times he must have felt a bot like doing that, what with all the hassle.

But I suspect that, if the existing Mudcat did cease to exist, there is by now sufficient strength in it, as summed up in Peace's post there, tp give a fighting chance that, in some form or another, it would re-emerge on another site, as well as maybe in other forms.

Once you bring something to life it has a life of its own.