This site would be better off catering to late model diesels in my opinion.
Quick history lesson here...many of the old-guard core members who helped build this site into what it is, migrated here from what is now thedieselstop.com because they were treated as unwanted stepchildren by the leadership on that site. For example, they assigned to the IDI forums a moderator who had zero interest in the platform, started selectively enforcing policies that made no sense but served to destroy the fabric of the community, and effectively made it clear that we were (barely) tolerated as opposed to being welcomed.
While I understand the idea of wanting to appeal to a wider audience, IMHO we also have to be careful to not lose sight of what made oilburners.net the site that it is.
I hope it will be possible to keep the site going, although I also acknowledge that this is effectively a Web 1.0 relic in a world where Web 3.0 is overtaking Web 2.0 (I'll be the first to acknowledge that I haven't been very active lately; life gets in the way). Even without much new activity, there is far too much gold archived on this site that NEEDS to be preserved. If anyone does a Google search for anything IDI-related, a thread on this forum is all but guaranteed to be the first result. This is information that needs to remain available to those who need it.
For a few years now, I've been toying with the idea of copying all of the IDI tech articles to my own website so they can remain publicly available if something ever happens here...my main issues have been time constraints, and of course I would need to seek permission from the original authors of the articles. I wonder if maybe something similar should be done with the forum as a whole, or at least some of the more informative threads.