On the topic of alternatives: The current options suck. A proposal to address the failures of extant options: Users hold their own data in the account they u

On the topic of alternatives: The current options suck. A proposal to address the failures of extant options: Users hold their own data in the account they use for SSO Every comment post etc is in your own account, with sites putting a request in the page from your SSO host The front page is defined by your choice of site or SSO provider. Eg I have a site and users can login with Google or make an account with my SSO provider, when they post a reference pointer is stored and the content is "reported" to the SSO provider by both the client and server with only those items reported by both being "validated" and stored. When site serves page with that content it puts in a js snippet that pulls the content item from the appropriate server. This means users have full control over their content, sites don't have to host as much content, SSO services have better monetization options (Subs or Sales of Data Analysis) while sites don't lose thiers, etc Subforums would just be different servers/sites, with your chosen frontend aggregating them all like a new age interactive RSS