^^^ I agree with Nic. I spend literally hours each week posting in my journal and following others in theirs that I rarely venture into the other parts of the OL community. There just aren't enough hours in the day!
And the other thing I am noticing is that before when I posted in a thread the setting for 'Notification Type' used to be set on default to 'Instant Email Notification', whereas now it is set to default 'No Notification'. It took me a while to notice that, and now I have to remember to select it.