When I first discovered Pelican (Tech only), I drove a screen like many here and it wasn't as "chatty" ... but I just read.... all day long ... between interruptions.
After a few years ... I discovered OT ... then it became more of a real-time "chat room" ... around the PARF split.
There used to be a bunch of active 50K+ posters .... prolly hundreds over 30K.
Glen & Paul post TONS of pics, jokes, etc., and some just want to discuss ticks ... a LOT
And we have bots now too...
Turtles rule