GH has more or less gone through a couple incarnations since you left. As of summer '09 it continued to get bigger, got a larger and vocal ergo group, major group buys developed, a few major turds cruised around, a few people acted like turds for whatever reason, summer of Ping! (summer '11), got a lot of off topic drama, no one would back down and get back to keyboards, major post/thread deletions, moderators, temp bans, perm-bans, more deletions, profanity filter, moderators gone wild, roooootweerrrrrmmm (summer '12), massive crash and content loss, rebirth, and so now you have it.
Did I leave out anything?
