I like the "two different site" concept, as well............for one thing, it "spreads out' the threads a bit, and, for another...imagine if 10-12 of us were all posting "our' bloom shots in the spring...on just one site! Yah, it would be an impressive show.....but you would be constantly mired in confusion .As to being "more work", ......when a person is making several hundred "clicks" a day (or maybe several thousand !) what's a few dozen more ? I'm sure that each of us is different in the way we "visit' the forums....some reading everything that's posted, some picking only those topics that they are interested in, and some following only the threads they , themselves started. Some 'check in" ,maybe, once a week, some only in iris 'season", and some several (or many !) times a day, all year long, and that's our prerogative.....to visit as much, and post as much, as we want.....it's our "option", so to speak...and having two sites to "visit" on, doubles those "options".
