I tried to be interested in head-fi still. I think it was when I got above the curve in being a newbie from time spent on head-fi and realized that only a few could justify much of what they were talking about. I quit posting for a while and thought that I needed a break while I finished DIY work and could add new impressions. While only browsing, I got even more tired of the continuous pointless trolling (especially about cables, its not the subject of every thread no matter how true) and rants about a new FOTM that was honestly not worth the money and therefore interest to me in my view.
I remembered this site from the outage last fall and gave it a visit when I entered the chat. What I heard was a little more honesty (biased or not) then I was used to and from a lot of the same users I highly respected on head-fi. It was a great thing, enough said and its nice to feel a little sense of a community again.