I agree. I get so annoyed when I have to fight with the computer just to get to the gardenweb And clicking no thanks every few minutes can't be good for business either.

I don't think it's dead. I think it's on the uprise, currently. I think people are just still getting used to the change (i.e. I think a lot of the old users left with the change, and now we're getting new people, as well as some of the old people back).

See my comments in [this thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/is-this-forum-dead-dsvw-vd~4920660) for how I answered the question in the not so distant past, and for suggestions on how I think Houzz could improve GardenWeb to improve its user base.

Laurie, yeah, I can relate. It's not fun to have to go through all those steps to get where you want to go. In the meantime, while you're waiting for them to spruce things up (hopefully they do), then you can always bookmark the forums you use the most, as well as this page with the big list of them. There are a few missing from that page, though, I think—like the cooking forum. There's another cooking forum out there somewhere (I think it's called Cooking with Your Harvest; oh, it's actually just the regular Harvest forum, which is on the list). Then there's the recipe exchange.

Last evening during Jeopardy! on OTA TV a houzz advert showed up. Nothing about gardening there either.

There's always much more interest in houses etc. than in yards, that's just the way it is. Except during the holidays, when many in my seasonally damp and dull climate area mount amazing outdoor light displays - yet do nothing noticeable with the same spaces the rest of the year.

Even during times and places where some wealthy landowners have made large involved gardens that covered acres there was often a huge house full of sometimes priceless treasures - and little taxation of the upper class - involved as well. With the gardening the first thing to be cut when and if things got tight.

I only have to click No Thanks every few minutes when I am not logged in.

Like an Old Testament prophet Janes was right on.