I'm a little late to the discussion, and really have not been around much at all for a few months, even after really intending on starting submit scoops again. I'm sorry to see it go, but realize fully that a good portion of why it is gone is because I was kind of a putz and did not contribute nearly as much as I should have. I think this was in part the series of changes that occurred while I was incommunicado from moves, life changes and general weirdness, and partially that I had the bad luck of coming to post whenever the site would go down. Really bad timing on my part. So I gave up for a while, more because of my personal issues than anything here. At the moment I am out of work, and while that should give me plenty of time to do things like this, I find that I spend a lot of time doing absolutely nothing.
I originally wanted to get involved in the sci-fi news page because I have a big interest in the genre and love to discuss it, but mostly because I wanted to contribute to the site in some meaningful way. Would a review column for sci-fi video and theatrical releases me approriate? This is not something I'm volunteering to do alone, as my track record is not all that great, but maybe an additional section to the features that remain and are coming.