You can spend so much time on a website and talk to all these people and become friends with them, and then there's that once fateful event that causes you inability to use that website for the purposes you did. And you lose contact with a lot of those friends. But, as yourself, they check the website, though infrequently, and where you have messaged them, they'll reply. I'm so fucking happy about that right now. I still wish chat hadn't died though.