I joined, but dropped. It seemed really like a Focus ST social deal to me (and soon that will be a Focus ST/RS deal). FiSTs are the red-headed step children in the Ford performance family of cars. It was the same for the SVT Focus.
I wish that the Fiesta ST forums had been aligned with the wider Fiesta community (like the SVT Focus was with the wider Focus group back in the day). While I did meet some folks with SVTs, a bunch of folks that connected via the old Focaljet forum came with whatever Mk1 (mostly) Focus that they had and we had some nice G2Gs.
This segmenting out of the STs (and RSes) probably makes good economic sense for the forum owners, but is not optimal for individual car owners. Among other things, it isolates out a pile of potential used parts buyers (the standard Fiesta owners that want ST bits) for those of us with piles of stock bits in the garage.
I see what you're saying, but at the same time, you're saying it on an ST forum instead of Fiesta Faction. I'm not a member there but they do have a (barely used) ST section. It would be like if you owned the SVT and chose to join SVTPerformance.com instead of FocalJet, as an example.
I don't really see the FiST as the red-headed stepchild, it's just not produced as much as the FoST is so the community is significantly smaller. There are some idiot FoST owners that think they're 'better' than FiST owners, but I think the overall community is better at reeling them in nowadays and acknowledging the fact that it's just not a direct comparison. And realistically, I haven't had that issue with any of the NWST/RS owners yet.
I met up with some of them this weekend at an install meet and they're just like everyone else-completely normal people from different walks of life. I had the only FiST there, but it wasn't a big deal.
I just ran through a pic-post and came across white-rhyno, lol.