Same here, lurker since the beginning. Never officially got a coat or brick! We need to make a lurker megathread for all the people like us that never made a reddit account. Be pretty interesting to see how many there actually are.
I get what you are saying, though it is extremely helpful for us to have an official backup plan for when the day T_D goes offline.
I was always worried reddit would just one day pull the plug on T_D without warning and the community would be permanently fragmented.
The information for this site should be stickied at the very top of the subreddit permanently IMO.
Ayyyyye, thanks man!