I appreciate the support sentiment, but I'm not interested in starting yet another forum. However, I do plan on setting up a PeerTube and some websites this year - all for these projects, some interrelated.

One of those projects is not to set up another forum - but to lay the foundations for the next generation (or few) forums. I can work on 2 of the 3 critical aspects. I will not do the coding aspect, but I can develop the goals and plans for how we could cultivate a better community with stronger distributed leadership and democratic ideas and a public square to hash things out. It won't be perfect but it would be better than a SaidIt monarchy adrift without goals. I will draft a rough manifesto and collectively we can improve it, add notes, caveats, fork it, etc. Hopefully it might be a guide for many future forums. SaidIt is a good start, but we can do better, must, and must try.

The remaining part that I want to develop is the fundamental functionality of future forums. Again, I am drafting something of a wish list or to do list for coders. More important that simply adding modular functionality, I want to overhaul to improve some of the concepts and purposes and flow of the GUI. I firmly believe I have some serious new game changers for common sense features that need to be built into the next gen forums - as well as the well known things we don't have yet. Again, I plant the seed with my first draft, then others can provide feedback and help evolve it. If these are reasonably inspiring I don't see why they can't be made, even if it takes a couple years.