The hognose forum is on the long list of forums that I check on an almost daily basis. Sometimes fieldwork will keep me away from the computer for a day or so.
I personally do not like the new forums. I have learned that after letting it load for a short time, pressing the escape key will stop loading and display the threads at the top of the forum which are the ones that are most relevant.
If you don't think that the forum is very active right now, wait until December and January when everybody's hognoses is not eating!!
I have learned on other herp related forums that only a quarter of the people to look at a particular post will reply to it. By that estimation I think it is safe to say that only half of the people who look at a forum will actually post.
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...the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
Calvin and Hobbes