I know you said your garden went to the dogs...but the forum? LOL

A lot of people go directly to the vegetable forum or cottage garden forum, rather than potager forum. I've been dealing with illness, physical rehab, rebuilding business, foreclosure, bankruptcy, etc...so not doing much in the garden this summer, but next year I will be back! Looking forward to a new garden and the fun of a new layout. Hope you stick around! :)

ALL the forums are much less active than in years past, with just a couple of exceptions.

It almost makes me miss usenet. People used to come and go, but the new folks always migrated to the same forums because they were all gathered together in one place where things were easy to find. If you were interested in bicycles, you went one place - usenet.rec.bicycles (with a handful of subgroups, and I'm probably not remembering the exact path).

Now that population is scattered all over the internet in hundreds, if not thousands, of related forums, which seem to go in and out of "style".

Yup, I almost miss usenet. The camaraderie. The sharing of information. The open discourse. The trolls ... the flame wars.

Maybe not after all, LOL!

Also, so many people have migrated to Facebook, and you can't have the same level of discourse there. I think all fora are finding this problem.