I'm a new member/former lurker. Been fishing since I was a kid, okay at it. Started spinning rod like most, buddies pulled me into fly fishing back in 16. This forum and public documentation are the best sources for looking up info on waters you're not familiar with. What brought me to join is I decided earlier I'd go after the slam. Waters I fish are BSC, Current, Mill and LP (and outside of Maremec Spring). I've decided to go after BF and snippets here and there in many threads allowed me to profile where to go on the water, where I can park, etc so an okay fly guy can better his success. And the Slam is just an excuse to get out on new waters now that the last one is away at college. Also, with the heat we get here, I'm going to expand to Smallies since I seem to be good at getting them at one of the waters above. Many thanks to the long term posters here who shared those snippets here and there. It was a lot of work pulling them but that's probably better.
And long time user of forums. Started with JR Cigars forum back in the 90s, gunco.net after that. The discords are essentially forums. Other than twitter, no social platforms.