Love the forum Josh -- Taylors are the main reason I started visiting the old forum and it's been great having a Taylor-centric place to catch up on updates and get photos, reviews, and feedback from like-minded Taylor players.
I think that as the forum has been growing, it has been nice to have more voices and a wider range of experience, which makes for less of the occasional debating and monologuing that could sometimes get a little testy. I had to step away from the forum for a while there because of that, but it seems things have been really quite nice around here lately.
Can't decide how I feel about the pricing issue -- I see good points on either side of the fence.
I agree that maybe some of the categories could get consolidated. I wouldn't be opposed to having just one Taylor subforum where all things Taylor go (acoustics, electrics, news, reviews, tour photos, etc)
One more idea I think I've floated before is that of maybe looking into the feasibility of a special edition UTGF guitar every year, maybe with the help of one or two of the awesome dealers that post here. Would be fun to get everyone's heads together and come up with a special guitar -- or even just shared appointments across several models -- that forum members could purchase. Taylor's BTO structure would make this even more simple than other brands who have done these kinds of special runs (Martin, Larrivee, etc) and maybe Taylor and/or a dealer could sweeten the deal a tiny bit, who knows?
Love the forum, thanks to everyone for making it a fun place to visit -- although I admit it is dangerous when I see and read about all your new guitars!
