I'm so glad this is your first choice, CR. I really like Cubits.org. I feel much better here than I did there. Some of the features I always used (Garden Watchdog and PlantFiles, for instance) aren't here, but they weren't there either in the beginning. This site is so new, but it already has so many great things about it. One example is the photo display system: The photos we post, both the thumbnails and the enlargements, look so much better here.
Besides, the freedom here is positively intoxicating. I have a cubit for smokers and I've joined a cubit for atheists. Those would never be possible in DG. The DG software once flagged me and gave me a warning about inappropriate language just because my post included the word "cigarette."
Another time, I was explaining to someone why people started calling me Zuzu. When I came to the United States at the age of 10 and at the height of the McCarthy era, the San Francisco Public Schools changed my name to Helen because, as they told me: "Elena is a communist name." No one under the age of 35 was named Helen then, so I was always known by my nickname, even after I went to court to get my real name back when I was 21. When I tried to post that message, the DG software warned me about inappropriate language because I had used the word "communist."
