There sure are a lot of good points being made. It seems that this place is, and can become, pretty much whatever we want to make it. If we work to recognise and further our own interests it hardly matters what is happening over on the "main" page. Alpha and Sue, even with their large staff of highly trained assistants, can't do it all themselves. As we grow, I'm finding it difficult to even get through the Gallery thumbnails once a day, much less actually opening the image and writing insightful relevant and helpful comments. Our best learning experiences lately seem to be in the Forum, where someone will start an interesting thread, and the discussion develops from there. Our more focused Contests seem to have fallen off in participation. I guess maybe Alpha and Sue could use some volunteers to help with POTW, encouraging new artist participation, developing tutorials and reviews, contributing to News & Views, editing the FAQ...