Some combination of the two, I think.

This forum has been an unparalleled resource for short-term survival thinking, and I certainly wouldn't change that.

Of course, it has the same drawback for us long-timers as any other forum... after awhile, it repeats a lot. That's necessary for those new to the site, but, without an influx of really new ideas, it means that there's less and less pulling long-timers back. You get the fourth discussion of hiking staffs, the third on woodburning stoves, the seventeenth on firestarting, the forty-sixth on sizes of tins, and the three hundred fifty-seventh listing of someone's PSK contents.

So, we participate less, and the newer people participate more. Maybe that's a good thing... but the character of the forum may change, too.