the difference is that there are overcrouded here right now!!
i actually live in a city that this has happened to. it was a nice quiet community where everyone knew each other. but now we are a teeming metropolis and i have no idea who my neighbors are. it is the nature of all things to change.
change is not only inevitable, its necessary. without change, old ideas become just that... old.
Jesus, Mu, as far as I am concerned you aren't really a veteran. We accepted and welcomed you when you joined, and you should damn well accept the people that have joined since you as well.
Get to know people. No regulars have left recently. The forum is an ever evolving thing. I can;t even remember what distinctive state it was in when you joined for you to want it to go back to, but I remember what is was like when I joined, which was nothing like anything you have ever seen here.
Recent members- ignore this moaning. You are not boring and you are very welcome here.