This was the same for me. I was afraid Eric got mad and took his toy home. I'm sure glad that wasn't the case. It's sad that even while this site has been down for however long, it's still had more posts than HS. Sad but makes me laugh just a bit.
I started to find his avatar at horseshoes but ran into that damn 406 not acceptable problem while using the search. I'm sure if he scrolls over his name at the top of his site he can find avatar in the drop down and add one if he wants.
Let's hope he finds a good one! My other favorite website is "backyard chickens.com". 5 years ago they had 8,000 members. Now it's over 100,000 members, about a thousand being the most on at one time. Out of that 100,000, I'm # 118 th member,LOL. Obviously the owner did a good job. They changed servers a few months ago, and it was confusing, so a bunch of us got together and formed a "help " group. It took a while, but the important thing, I guess, is that confused members had their concerns personally addressed, It would have been way too much for the admin to do, it was a good thing that members chipped in and helped out. So, the members and their attitudes mean alot to a website. This site "feels" like it'll be the same way, members just not numbers, but important . Oh, and yes, I have 36 pet chickens with names.