Under a different username, I've been here almost since the start and there were very few before me. Heck, I'm one of the only ones left who still remember the old "forum" if that even gives the old style any credit at all for how crude it was (but it worked most of the time).As we've expanded, look at what has happened. Spam increases, scams have increased, we have a growing set of vendor only a few of which stay around for any long period of time, most flare up then burn out quite quickly. We've had infrastructure changes to handle the new demands and threats. SilkRoad survives because it adapts and although not much happens on the surface, below that surface is a very well oiled machine of hundreds of vendors spendings hours every day packing and managing orders, processing money, admins sorting disputes, DPR fixing bugs and checking for the latest threats, drugs being couriered in bulk and resold across the world. As long as we continue to evolve then we will be fine. The only problem with this however is SR tends to evolve responsively or when something goes wrong as opposed to a pro-active approach.