I am here more than once everyday, but don't post much...and detect even less! Texas has had how-many-days of over 100 degrees, I lost count, some over 110. I went out to the coin garden(a few buried coins, a few surface coins and pull tab remnant, BIG garden huh!) and messed with some of the settings in the V3i. I tried digging a couple of holes in this over searched yard of mine in late evening a couple of times, and the depression of hitting can slaw, or even worse,,,dry holes, turned me off very fast just because of the sweating and suffering at my nearly 60 years of age. I don't miss tectin' that much right now ;-)
You do have a point though,,it seems that many of those from that other site faded to black. Fact is that some of the real veterans from all sites have seemingly gone missing for lengthy periods of time, maybe it is the summer heat. martin