I just looked back at the December storm thread. That one was really fun, but probably half the posts would be considered banter now and moved or deleted.
Brick. The community has grown, a lot. We were much smaller back then. Now when banter happens in main threads, there's like 10x the amount of people participating in it. In other words, people have to scroll through 30 posts that aren't relevant to the weather or learning to get to the next model image etc.