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Sorry to read about Dgrin's closure. what a time spent here making new friends and learning from them.

Oh heck, I am going to violate the most sacred of sacreds, and post something from a sub-forum that almost none of you ever knew about, The Moderator's Chambers. The what you say? Ahem, yes, the admins and mods had a whole lot of fun here behind the scenes that none of you could ever see. All forums have those for internal communications and discussions. So I am going to post a screen grab of a page from a whole lot of years ago. When we got a new moderator (we've had dozens), the Moderator's song came up to welcome them. So, here is one of those pages. Sorry, I can not divulge the contents of other 100,000 posts there.

Haven't posted yet, but am there as saraspics ("photos" was not accepted...).

I just sent messages to Pathfinder and jwear in dgrin direct messaging. Hopefully, they'll have time to read them before the end happens.

There are now quite a few former Dgrin members on the https://focus-on-photography-forum.net/ site. Grateful to @David_S85 for pointing the way. Mentioning this again in case some Dgrin folks see this page after the website stops accepting new posts but is still visible here or via the Wayback machine on Internet Archive. In addition to the Focus on Photography Forum, there is also a Digital Grin group on Flickr here.

Also, just in case I don't run into some D-grinners on other sites, I have really enjoyed my interactions here.
I joined Dgrin in February 2007, it was mainly to post an admiring comment about a Horsetail Falls firefall photo posted by @ehughes and ask where in Yosemite he had taken that shot. I lurked and picked up a lot of info. A couple of years later I got my first DSLR and I eventually overcame my lurking to start asking questions. Thanks @ziggy53, @pathfinder, @David_S85, and many more for the many helpful replies. I eventually developed the confidence to participate in the challenges, but not enough to post photos for critique. I would like to thank all members for making this a friendly place to learn and share photography. I hope to "see" many of you in the future either on Flickr,
FOP, or other photography sites. I wish you all the best.

So here we are at Feb. 1st. New posts are about to be turned off. See you all at the (real) FOP forum or at the Flickr group.

I was finally able to get my FOP Forum login confirmed and approved, so I will be checking that site out tomorrow. Thanks everyone.

Sherry P.

I just signed up at FOP this evening and confirmed my email. I haven't posted yet, though.