I am pretty sure we got trading down to a science on OG, been at it for years and most times it’s positive. The trade thread is great because people have the thread set on watch so they get notification when someone posts there. Lately every new person creates a whole new thread normally saying “I am looking for this strain”, lol. Then it get’s buried or nowhere near as looked at since it’s not on watch by half the site. It was never like that before but has become what everyone does. It’s the same with creating new threads for every random thought that pops into peoples heads without searching to see if there are already 10 like it. Creates a bunch of work for the poor MODS who spend much of their time merging threads to get rid of all the redundancy.
On the subject of a trade list, if you like the idea of a trade list you can have one @PsillyRabbit . When you make your list just make it a wiki. Then you can edit it past that one month barrier. That should solve that for you if you would prefer to do it that way. 