I think everything about diet has been said and discussed. People just moving on. Look at last month posts. Mostly political BS.
I agree. Most RVAFers are well-centred people who recognise that diet(or Internet) is only a small part of one's life so they move on once they feel they have learnt most of what they need to know or once they have healed. Most seem to continue to stick to the RVAF diet, so they don't necessarily need a support-group - plus, as Inger has found out, viewing the Internet is not very Palaeo.In my own case, I stay because I like helping out the newbies, and because, every now and then, some other member comes up with a new interesting concept such as EMF sensitivity or whatever that makes me realise that I have not remotely covered all health-related issues nor all palaeo-reenactment or whatever.
What I used to do when I first started the RVAF diet was to to scan the archives of all the Yahoo group RVAF diet forums or those with similiar leanings like Weston-Price and I would inevitably come across answers to my then-current problems as well as answers to questions I had never considered, which speeded up my health-recovery greatly. Wouldn't be surprised if others did that too, but that often makes people less likely to post.
Some ruminations:-
1) Most internet forums have a very short lifespan.Googling online suggests that most forums die within the 1st year, more than 3 years is considered a miracle.Ours is, therefore, actually quite a resounding success in a way.
2) We could rejuvenate the RPF board by wiping out all(or most) previous posts and starting all over, thus forcing newbies to actually ask questions online in order to get answers etc.. I note that some other boards have done this, every few years.I am against for nostalgia reasons. There are many past useful posts on this board, even from members I may have not been particularly partial to, which have been most informative, so I would be reluctant.
3) Making more boards inaccessible for non-members might help, I don't know....
4) Get someone to write a book and popularise it in the right medias. SB would be perfect re this. If SB is no writer, perhaps someone else could ghostwrite the book? It is just that I read somewhere that diets get reguarly revitalised re interest whenever a new book comes out on the subject. The trouble is that the interest generated by any such book lasts usually only 7 years. What we need is another Aajonus, I guess, who writes a new book every few years on RVAF diets.