"Perhaps you meant "exhausting". "
*waits*
AG was a different sort of board. In its day the top thread would move to the bottom very quickly. One could see the board move as if it were alive. Threads that were not posted on or bumped fell off the edge of the universe so-to-speak... it aged off. You would have to check your own "history" to see where you had been the previous day or you could spend hours looking through the quick and ever changing pages.
There were MILLIONS of users, so if someone new came along you never really knew they were new.... just "another user".