The Internet Wayback Machine will eventually be the only place to find your posts. Going WAY back to 2001, it can be unwieldy to find posts, depending on how prolific you were there.
I think my Top Chef recaps were some of the hardest for me to find, but I did and copied them to Word docs awhile back, IIRC.
I contacted SFEater via their tip page and pointed them to the post on CH. I didnât mention HO, though.
Like @LindaWhit I am surprised i took so long to die. The horrendous site redesign (remember VIPGeorges?) and the heavy-handed moderation that devolved to iron fists as the outcry over the redesign raged ruined a site that had become a daily staple for me over some years.
I was quickly banished after I had the audacity to invite CH posters to check out HO. Since I also refused to apologize for that transgression I was never reinstated and have not darkened their portal for some years.
There are at least two places to post on CH. The general announcement linked above, and a topic that Melanie opened in the San Francisco board:
A number people have mentioned HO in both places. Weâll have to see if they get scribbled.
I would totally do a nostalgia thread of favorite recipes - when I was teaching myself to cook, I remember working my way through will Owensâ pork shoulder recipe, or jfoodâs short ribs and countless others before I found my own style and learned! (Edit: to be clear, I still make those)
Iâve plugged it. I also bumped a dozen of my favourite old threads. 
I do hope we get many of the regulars from CH. There are so many good folks who have been part of that community for a long time.
HO solves so many of the frustrating technical problems that thwarted both posting and interacting there. I think theyâd love it here and make this community the richer for it.
Please, invite them over!
I did already on some of the regular threads (weekly menu planning, baking, cookbook of the month)
Jan & I remember that fun evening well, Linda. Do you still go to the restaurant?
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I bet I know which Melanie LOL
Moderators Hat On
Relax nobody is in trouble!! I just wanted to draw as much attention from everyone as possible. Above @sck has made a plea to try and attract as many Chowhoundâs as possibleâŚ
I would like to reiterate that plea as well as those who can still post there to let people know there is an alternative. We might not be perfect but we are trying each day to make this as valuable a resource as possible, without much of the craziness Chow brought with it.
Thank you for your continued support.
Letâs Go HOâs!!!
If ever there was a call to arms, itâs that. 
Not surprised CH is shutting down. I remember when they rolled CH into the magazine Chow, and then CBS media bought it. I went to marketing survey meeting at the CH/Chow HQ with two objectives, get the $100 gift card but also check out the location/culture because they were hiring. The staff seemed nice enough but I did not pursue the job, not right for me. At that time I couldnât figure out how they got revenues (food website became very competitive), and then they reconfigured the siteâŚso stopped going. HO is good howeverâŚlow key, friendly, people informative. The one thing I hope is people from CH come over, but I hope a few people donât dominate things like in the past.
One thing Chowhound users can do is to mention in their favorite discussions or boards about HO, and entice the friends over, as e.g. @Phoenikia and @Saregama have done with much effectiveness. Thanks both!
One of the best areas of CH, right up to the present, has been the Paris board. Several of us have posted on threads there & suggested that the regular posters migrate over here, since thereâs already a pretty solid overlap. Letâs see what happens.
What I meant was we might see a mini influx of new members. Ones who donât know about HO yet, ones who joined that wretched site after we had fled.
Thereâs a bunch of âold-timersâ on here from the beginning but they have either left for whatever reasons or are (still) lurking.
Annoying people are everywhere,(especially online because they can be PC police/a-holes anonymously). This site is small so they stand out like like a siren in the night.
A request for all here â I know the shutdown of CH may bring up many old wounds and negative feelings, but if people want to vent, can you please restrict it to previous CH venting threads.
We are hoping/trying to get regular CH posters to join us here to recreate/rebuild, and enrich our discussions and community.
A pool of swirling negativity is not the welcome anyone wants or needs.
Whatever your past feelings on the posters â itâs in the past tense â everyone should get a clean slate when they join HO, and a sense of the positive community we enjoy here!
