I miss that thingy, too! Often it'd give me things from people whose posts I'd viewed on some SPN comm, and would lead me to more things I liked looking at. And it would remind me to stay off ONTD, because every time I clicked on one of those dumb links after I'd logged into LJ, it'd clog up that widget with ONTD crap instead of interesting SPN things. XD

This is the second post on LJ I've seen in the last 24 hours that was about being more pro-active about friending people and wanting to keep abreast of stuff on LJ. I know we are an ever-diminishing social networking platform, but that sentiment and activity makes me really happy. <3