 Before closing, Hunter stated that he conceived TOTSE as "a place where all types of ideas could be spoken, traded, and exchanged, where no topic was off-limits or forbidden" in the early days of the Internet; and, as demonstrated in the scope of TOTSE text file archive, he felt this was only a part of the community by 2009.The forum software was running a highly modified version of UBB 5.47a, which has been heavily criticized by several readers due to its age.Hunter purchased a copy of vBulletin, with the eventual upgrade occurring on April 4, 2007.