The posts were a lot shorter as only a few comments and then it stopped. Now people tend to stay around longer with their threads.
In the early days of the forum, people had multiple recovery threads. We had lots of short threads, because people would start a new thread every time they had something new to say.
The forum had a lot less traffic then, so it was easy to keep track of everyone and their history. These days, the forum is so busy that it would be confusing for people to have a bunch of recovery threads.
There used to be a lot of cross-over between the hip and knee areas of the forum. That was fun, but it's fun having a larger, more active forum too.
I would encourage you to look at how many people came to Bonesmart, stuck around a few months, and then disappeared forever. I think that says something really positive about the long-term success of joint replacement surgery. If they were having trouble, we'd hear about it, don't you think?
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