I agree with the above. Plus the fact that too much personal information gets divulged or can be mined by joining facebook. I'd rather limit my online participation to forums like GW and other, less inclusive, less wide open sites. I've been a member here for a long time....going on a couple of decades......and I have seen the same ebb and flow of visitor traffic through the seasons as we are now witnessing. January, February, March are always as slow as molasses but it will pick up when the gardening season comes into to full force in the next 6-8 weeks. And I have to say that the comments about excessive ads and pop-ups surprises me. I don't experience hardly any at all and just use Explorer with the standard firewalls. Didn't realize this was much of a problem anymore regardless of the Internet server one used...... I have to be honest when I say I read more than post. Most of the topics don't hold a great deal of interest for me and I tend only to respond to questions that get neglected or overlooked or when erroneous info is provided. Since conifers are not my area of concentrated expertise, I let others respond first - there is an amazing knowledge base here :-) But I still remain pretty active in some other forums. I also live in an area where the Internet is not widely available so I am not online at home. And since my work life is pretty seasonal and therefore computer access the same, I tend not to post much in winter anyway.

I saw 3 American Goldfinches on the feeder today. Also a nuthatch walking down one of the trees. A bluejay or 2. That's it. That's the most finches I've seen in 2 weeks. The squirrels & chipmunks are living large on the feeders, but I do miss my birds.

This site hasn't been the same since Spike started charging for it. A lot of folks left then, and it has never recovered. I wish it was more active too. I thought it might get better after the sale of the site, but it hasn't.

Saved pages? If you mean your clippings that you saved on the old GW yes they are gone since they were tied to your member page at GW. But all the discussions are still available by search so all the recipes from the forum are still here but would have to be pulled together by you again. Better to save recipes/instructions to your own computer. If you mean discussions you saved to your own computer then they should still be available to you unless you just saved the URL and not the content itself. URLs all change when the servers change. Dave