Thanks for creating this forum. Don't give up just b/c of the new group on Facebook.
People will figure out that Facebook is too public for the kind of forum that Elride was, too many non-surfers, employers, etc can see your posts. I turned off my notifications from that group almost as soon as I joined & will leave it if it turns into a flame war or troll haven.
The advantage of this kind of forum is it's not public & its members can choose what threads to open and participate in or not.
I'd rather troll on here than FB. If we can just find Stoke