Yeah, I read a lot here before I found it necessary to join. I would search before post.

But these days there are many threads on each subject, I think the forum is experiencing some growing pains. New threads instead of revisiting old ones seems to be the trend. Someone's always making a new one, and the discussion moves over there. Maybe a bit of fear of OT/hijacking?

Makes searching harder and participation more likely.

I mostly check the threads I was last active in, about twice a day. Then I hang around for a while.