I know I'm breaking a rule by discussing, but while I fully agree that being able to find precise, wonderful information easily IS a good thing..the other side of it (from my perspective) is that if I want to start a thread called "Do you love your Gibson?" (or whatever I might be currently enraptured and wanting to talk about) I will want to talk to the members who are here now.

There is a LOT of good information archived and the forum has been around long enough that nearly anything any of us might strike up has probably already been touched on (or danced around).

Sometimes it's just nice to have new threads instead of stringing onto hand-me-downs.
Old conversations and long-ago members are great and it's wonderful that they're still here for us..but new conversations and communication that springs up between those of us who are here right now is also great.

Finding 25 threads by running a search doesn't seem like a bad thing to me..it sort of feels like a jackpot when I look for something and several threads surface for me to browse.

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Editing has been a lot of work around here lately.
Those of you who are working to try keeping things running smoothly (and non-toxic) have my admiration and appreciation.