Yeah I used to feel the same way. There was no reason to start a thread in the CFF because it was basically a ghost town.
I do kinda miss Flash Chat, but not sure how well it'd work with the number of users we have now.
I can still remember the grumpiness from some members, when Ghost made it clear that sports threads had to go to their specific forums. The Water Cooler/General Discussion forum could handle every topic back then, but man I couldn't imagine the clusterfuck it would be today. lol
Pretty curious as to why he's stepping down. Washington hasn't had a great year, but I never had the impression that his seat was remotely hot. He seemed to have a good thing going at Washington. Just really strange.