TWRoO on 10 December 2011
There are a couple of reasons 2007/8 were the best.
First it was a smaller community, it is naturally going to feel less special to the older users when new people appear (though a few particularly awesome members make themselves known and liked)
Second, back then the focus was on sales and sales related discussion, which is what many of us came to the site for in the first place... there is less of that now that there are reviews and news stories etc, and as some site changes caused some old users to leave there are less of us to discuss with.
