What have you learned from our comment sections this year?

Love this comment sections. learned a bunch

I've learned that, how to say it, a recipe is a living, breathing thing that belongs to its writers, cooks and eaters.
Often the comments section reveals questions, ideas and variations that the posted writer didn't (yet) think of or include in the writing.
I wonder if recipes we now think of as classics went through a similar process far from our eyes, before they became enshrined by usage in a cuisine, a culture, an author's repertoire or our memory.
Even the classics can get turfed out.
The revolution of nouvelle cuisine (Bocuse, Freres Troisgros, et al) threw out - for example - long cooking times, heavy sauces, long menus, cuisine classique.
But it was less a revolution than a pendulum swing.
And we have, again or new, long (tasting) menus, some heavy sauces, low and slow (long) cooking times.
So, long live the recipe, a living, breathing organism.

The tips for growing basil were very helpful. First year i grew it successfully! Of course many, many, others.

I am drawing a blank in terms of specifics but I did want to contribute to this topic because I have thought a bit about the "community" aspects of Food52. Previously I was casually interested in cooking info on the internet but no particular site interested me more than others. But after lurking here for a while and joining several years ago this is certainly my go-to site. And I think that is largely because of the communication between content providers and content users. Not only do I find valuable insights into a recipe, technique or general topic from the comments but I think I have learned about the other members of Food52. Having developed a "feel" for some other members it makes it easier to evaluate whether a particular recipe, technique or modification is something that is liable to be successful for me.

Quite a bit is the brief answer. Readers of hotline have made helpful comments on my own recipes on several occasions which made me go back and reconsider. But then sometimes, deep in a thread there will be a nugget of wisdom that makes me pause and rethink my own advice.