Never thought about it in those terms Pete... But with 100K + users it may be valid to ask just how easy it should be to post on the forum. Those who cant figure out how to post the old way... What sort of placemark are they likely to post. Possibly have never read a single message on the forum.

And I dont know how to test, but what happens to someone who is not a community member, when they try to "Share with Google Earth Community"? Do they get made a member? The membership was already doubling every 10 days? In the long term it would be nice to have a simple way to post, but for the short term, I keep thinking thought like: