My first reaction to this was, don't complain about the lack of good threads, start one yourself. But that's nomnreally fair - for all I know 53 might have started up half a dozen great threads before starting this one to round off the evening.
Anyway, I'm glad this has turned into a thread mostly of people pointing the way to other ghood threads, present or past, rather than another griping session about how the Mudcat is going down the pan. (I wonder when the first of thoise was started ? I suspect about three weeks after the Mudcat emerged.)
Here is one a lot of people might have missed, . It is a permathread stuck right up the top (cf Poe's "Purloined Letter"): the Mudcat Site Map and PermaThread Index Riches untold.