20 October 2014, 11:00
I do seem to detect one improvement that we have the online forums to thank for, quite a few people have joined forums and managed to team up with or interact with people with a similar approach and set of plans as themselves. Once they meet up with folks of similar intent as themselves they go off and start communicating directly with each other. For the newbies all they have to do is use the search function on many forums to find all the info they need.