CP, I for one will not abandon this forum until the day comes that I try to log on and it's not here! Yes, I've registered on the other 2 new 'splinter' forums and will participate on them as time allows (I'm going back to my pool job soon and I usually work 10 - 12 hrs/ day Mon - Sat and try to get at least 9 holes of golf in on Sun), but this forum will be my first priority when time to 'play on the computer' is limited (I also have a wife and dog who need a certain amt of my time).

If more people feel like you (in wanting to leave because Ben has been MIA for a few months), then perhaps the forum is doomed. HOWEVER (!), this forum is the starting point for the other 2 and it was Ben who started this forum and provided us all the information which has made this one soooo popular and benificial! I believe that Falken and SeanB started their sites ONLY to provide us a meeting place in the event that this one disappears and to allow folks who can not register here access to the folks and info that poolsolutions/ forum provides. We don't know why Ben has been absent so long, and not meeting his test kit obligations - but he at least left us with Lisa, Janet, Carl and Al, who are maintaining the site quite well, and the forum IS STILL HERE!
I, as well as many others, hope and pray that all will turn out well for Ben and he will come back and make everything right with the forum! (and if he needs a little $$, everyone who saved money by not having to call out the 'pool pros' should send a few bucks to him!). In the mean while, the other forums allow us (poolforum members) the opportunity to help those who can't access this site.