A thank you to Democratic Underground, and a plea.

[Jamastiene]

277. To me, it looks like it is not nearly as active as it used to be.

There have always been groups of people who bicker back and forth a lot, but there were also a lot more great articles posted and a lot more threads posted. That made it so you could skip over the never ending arguments that cannot be "won."

I think it has been much slower in the last year or so. I don't know if it just appears that way to me or it really is slower, but that would explain why the few threads that do appear in the rotation on the Latest Threads page just hardly ever move any more. It just stays static for days at a time nowadays.

Before that slow down happened, I used to "lose" many links I wanted to read because they would get bumped to the second or even third page while I was reading the first one I wanted to see. I started opening links in different tabs to keep from losing them. The difference nowadays is that I still do that out of habit, but don't really need to. The Latest Page is so dead nowadays, I could just read one link at a time and go right back without having to dig and search on the second and third pages for the other things I thought would be interesting to read.