2026 Update

[victoriajackson]

Kerim, easing the registration friction sounds like the right call — manual approval probably did quiet the spam bots at the cost of genuine people losing interest. Letting AI help with the overhaul is a practical use of it. Keeping an eye on the junk accounts seems sensible since that was the tradeoff. Nice to see the forum open up without the bottlenecks. Hopefully more real members come through now.