I haven't been on here for a good few years

How many years have you been roffing? What's changed on here and for you during such time?

Ok, I’ll bite: 

Roffing since 2007. There used to be a greater spread of topics discussed. Used to be funnier. Occasionally it still is. Lots of trolling these days which takes away lots of the fun. Fun is still there sometimes tho. 
 

(but also: your mum etc) 

I dropped out for a time but came back because I had a couple of questions I wanted to sound people out on.

RoF is a bit like what I imagine a QAnon site would be. A hard core of people who think alike, and who aim to drive away, with extraordinary bile and aggression, anyone who does not think just like them.

Best avoided, but occasionally entertaining.

ermm. blackletter.. some other names - that I have forgotten. The idea of nice group of like-minded folk on a forum where they can laugh, joke, exchange ideas, find support (find a job and accommodation) is appealing.

So Rof is not like that these days?

 

Roffing since 2005.  A couple of hiatuses when the uber nasty shit got tedious.  It's become far more polarised and dominated by a smaller group of posters.