I’m coming up with a lot of them myself. But mostly the ones I don’t miss, 'cause that’s how I roll.
Passadumkeg, I miss.
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Another classic Hound I have a lot of good memories of, I remember we used to continue our conversations via e-mail–but I too have a faulty memory and can’t remember his real name.
His name is Mark Boshko. My email to him yesterday was returned as undeliverable. I t was a VERY old address. He taught at Grants High School in New Mexico and split his time there with living in Maine. His last social media post seems to be from 2019. Have not done any further sleuthing.
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Thanks @Steve Mark was a very interesting guy. I hope he’s well and just let his social media lapse.
Mark is alive and well. I’m friends with him
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Tell him we miss him,
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I sent him screenshots 
Hopefully, he will drop by!
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I’ve met him a few times, he’s a lovely fella.
Being that you are friends with him I will ask you if you think having his personal information posted here would be a problem. I’m always sensitive when it comes to posting personal information about 3rd parties.
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He gave a thumbs up to the nice comments from the posters here. He’s okay with it.
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Is gone.
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That means I can repeat all my stories & no one will know, right?
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You’ll know. And I’ll probably know, too, but I’ll keep my trap shut.
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Feels odd. So final.
I remember when Gourmet stopped printing. But at least the recipes lived on at Epicurious.
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I was chatting with someone on my personal FB page about CH closing yesterday. And I just said “Hopefully with a lot of digging, the Internet Wayback Machine will be able to come up with threads should anyone wish to find a particular morsel of info.”
So I decided to try. I went to the Internet Wayback Machine and put in CH’s URL. OK, check out March 2022 - according to the IWM, “This calendar view maps the number of times chowhound.com was crawled by the Wayback Machine, not how many times the site was actually updated. Green indicates redirects (3xx).”
On March 17th (the biggest blue circle), the IWM crawled over 10.5K times on the CH site. 
I clicked on Saturday, March 26th. Got the main CH page. Clicked on Communities. They’re all there. You can click on “Quick Links” on the far right to find COTM or DOTM, etc. Or you can click one of what they call “Communities” (vs. Categories as they’re called here and what they really are! LOL) and dig deep that way. It takes awhile for the page to refresh and come up with what you’re looking for, but the new stuff is there.
I’ve not tried the search recently; last time I looked, it wasn’t easy to find what I was looking for. You’d probably have to go to the specific year/month of the post(s). For instance, Top Chef-Boston aired on Bravo from late 2014 - early 2015. So I went to October 2014 in the IWM, clicked on October 20th, 2014 (NOTE: The IWM crawls were a LOT less back then!)
I asked to View All Boards, then Food Media & News, and when they all came up, my Top Chef Boston Ep. #1 from 10/15/14 came up.
Click on that link, and I can get to my post.
So - it’s doable. It’s just time consuming. I’ve created a new thread here and copied/pasted most of this thread.
Perhaps clarifications can be added there vs. the RIP Chowhound thread.
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Thanks so much for this! Very valuable to know. It does preserve some things. I don’t think you can search plus it may give you the OP but not the discussion. Have not investigated much yet but will make some good use of it.
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I just did it with one of my Top Chef Boston recaps. My original start to Episode #1, and ALL responses are there as of the date you chose from the calendar map. The Google search, as suggested by @naf on my other thread, doesn’t give you the full discussion - just the initial post.
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Once the news of the closure broke (along with the knowledge that the corporate owners didn’t plan to do anything about keeping the data), Melanie Wong in particular started a major push to preserve CH threads, helped by some connections with some folks at the Internet Archive. There was plenty that was already there, but the massive crawls of the past few weeks both sent a ton more into the Wayback Machine and resulted in much better, less glitchy records, with whole threads and outlinks preserved rather than just OPs.
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