After 2 years as a blog, All Things Democrat is returning to its roots and will soon reopen as a new discussion forum.

For those of you who have known this site since the beginning, you’ll recall that we started as a forum, but then became a blog.  Much of the reason for that change was simply to get in on the fun; blogs were hot, forums were not.  However, the primary goal of this site was to be an online community for lefties and others supportive of Dems, and as a blog we weren’t moving toward that goal.  We were just one of a thousand struggling blogs desperately seeking to have a post acknowledged (or sometimes stolen) by the big blogs (kudos to Crooks and Liars for being the exception).  On the other hand, a forum is, by definition, an online community.  I’m glad that we went through the blog experience, but I look forward to being one of a handful of lefty forums focusing on community, instead of competition.

So, please check back at the end of August for the official launch of our new All Things Democrat Forum.