Given Mudcat's format...with all threads in a row and all showing.... I'm not sure whether LOADS of new members, no matter what their inclination, would be easy to cope with. I can barely scan the topics as it is. (Some fora (forums?) have the various topics divided, so that the main page has listings of topics, instead of going right to threads. That allows only loading part of the forum. (I'm not in favor of that...I LIKE our format, but add a few thousand more members, and it might get pretty hard to read.)

(Yes, I know...some would like the BS area to be out-of-easy-sight anyway. Things to think about.)