I miss the LoT.

Me too

There's a shelf life for message board participation, I find. I think a large part of it is the irl life changes that take place, but also one finds a certain repetitiveness of topics after several years. I don't think we have that problem here so much, but I know I find it very difficult to stay long on micechat/mousepad type boards because they're still having the same conversations we were having 15 years ago on A.D.D.

I miss LoT though.

I suspect the casualness with which we can post our random thoughts to facebook causes us to more heavily scrutinize what we'd post here, to the extent that we end up posting very little. So many times I find myself wondering if a topic is "worth" its own thread on LoT. But that does rob LoT of its richness.

I press your "Like" Button. :snap:

I miss the non-Facebook folk like SzczerbiakManiac, 3894, & scaeagles (along with all the others whom I've forgotten to mention). And Suzie-Ann Krellingshaw feels stifled on Facebook.

I didn't mean to imply FB was solely to blame. You're right, times change, APs become ridiculously expensive, paths eventually fork. I was just reflecting on/longing for the "good old days".

I find the format of facebook makes it nearly impossible to follow discussions. If I see a discussion starting on an interesting topic on a friends list and say I'm busy but I want to go back later unless I remember whom it's impossible to find.

I don't participate unless I feel I have something to add, but I know a lot of very smart, interesting people and I love to see their opinions. And facebook just isn't a great format for expressing opinions.

Off topic, but on topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjxAAezqJZQ

Everyone misses the community on the lot but few people post here anymore. We are the Yogi Berra of websites.

As in, "Nobody goes [to LoT] anymore. It's too crowded."? ;)