I just checked one of my old posts that had been truncated that I did not contact Houzz about and I can't imagine anyone else contacting them about. It has been fixed! They also restored the photo hyperlinks to view the pictures larger for the existing externally hosted photos. Plus they removed the crazy fixed width attribute they had added to the image tags that forced all smaller pictures to stretch to 500 pixels wide. So that is three really big improvements recently. Not sure why they don't mention all the fixes in their "updates" section. I thought I would check the butterfly FAQ to see if they were fixed, but many still seem cut and have the "..." at the end. That normally indicates that there is content that doesn't fit (at least on this site as far as I can tell). But, none of my posts that were truncated ever had the "...", so that may be a separate issue? It is good to know they are still working on things, even if they aren't saying it :) I was a little worried because on another thread a while ago one of the admins had said that the truncated posts should be fixed, but to let them know if we found more. I thought, oh no....if they are actually fixed then we shouldn't be finding more. I checked mine at that time and it wasn't fixed, but I wanted to just wait and see if and when it was fixed. Now it is. So they are still working on it I guess.

I agree, but Houzz would have had to have a separate server to retain all those posts. I guess it set a time limit and space limit on retained posts, so we lost a ton, but every now and then, I see some older posts pop up from someone's search. I think they did away with all the 90s and only kept those from the 2000s, because I've seen a few pop up from 2003 and 2005. Sadly, the early days were the best, when there were so many more members and so much great information.

Can I just whine a little more? One big difference I've noticed is that posters who are 'from Houzz' use picture examples from Houzz and suggestions based on things that are IMO ridiculously $$$ and are often way beyond the scope of what the poster was asking about - and sometimes it's a vendor for said product or service making that suggestion which really chafes me. Not that that never happened with GW before the forums were mixed but there was and still is, I think, a different mindset and a broader perspective. When we search things out for each other we aren't using Houzz as the be all and end all because we 'grew up' searching the wide web, feel no loyalty to any particular source and enjoy the hunt. And part of our mission if I can call it that, has always been to help educate each other about WHY not just how - and we've been extremely lucky to have had incredible members over the years who share their vast knowledge. Houzz' photo stock does not cater to the average homeowner. Houzz is first and foremost a venue for professionals to sell their services and wares, not a discussion forum for Susie/Sam gardener to come and ask about hostas or Janie/Jonny homeowner to ask about the right lamp for the nightstand. We are an off shoot of that, nothing more. the money gets poured into keeping the advertisers happy not the forums. End of rant.

willowdecor and her husband moved to their beach house a few years ago and remodeled it. http://willowdecor.blogspot.com/2017/07/our-next-chapter-introducing-stone.html She has a new IG for it, but it's private, https://www.instagram.com/StoneRidgeCottage