I tend to agree with Jeri.
There has been a shift in the Mudcat forum but it is the kind of place where things are always changing.
Like the saying goes about the weather....'if you don't like the weather, be patient, it will change'.
I do miss the hard core musicians. If they are not reading or posting as much, from my experience, they tend to not come back.
Yet I had excellent responses to the most recent music thread I started even though I had created a luring title.
I felt grateful for the wonderful answers I received.
I would not want to see Mudcatters on expertise lists.
If I have expertise in something I will offer my knowledge when asked or I will choose to offer it when I feel a need to make what I have learned known.
I do not have a need to find people willing to listen to what I know. Except for my sister.

Bonnie