I agree. I see or use FW swag in my house daily but I try not to think about it too much anyway. It took a long time to get used to habitual things like not being able to search their forums for past threads/info (the Way Back Machine only works if you already have the exact thread URL already). If you didn’t get a promised t-shirt at FW, a moderator would have apologized and personally ensured you got one ASAP, and might have thrown in a little swag too.
Relatedly, it would have been nice to have some recognition of PhW’s 1 year anniversary. It wasn’t easy to pull of what we all did on such short notice, and quite a number of people volunteered their time to make it all happen.
It is sad not to have everyone all together on one site, but I think of all of the new post-FW options, PhW was been the most active (and largest?). SD is a lot bigger and a lot more active but a lot more hostile and impersonal, and other options are much smaller, less active, and more cliquish… or don’t have a proper forum format that encourages discussion/member sharing/deal posting, etc. PhW has had it’s mis-steps, but that is to be expected and it will continue to improve over time. So, I think a number of people who migrated elsewhere may eventually find their way (back) here.
