I used to do this with Gentoo, and it was always a blast! Glad that you’re having fun “rolling your own!”

Thanks for sharing! I appreciate it!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your ideas! I appreciate it!

I kind of feel like a weirdo for not chatting a lot, I guess?

I don’t know. Windows 7 was widely considered to be the nadir.

I think you hit on one of the key points. Every other time this same pattern has played out, each of those sites becomes a shadow of what they once were, but the continue because (to be blunt) running Internet sites is CHEAP.