Lovely to hear from you again! Yes indeed, those were the days when we were still finding treasure hidden in trees, walls, rocks, and I don't know how many other places.I've kept my old slow laptop (vintage about 1999) specifically so that I can play MM6 on it and find the goodies hidden in the pews of the Silver Helms' chapels. They don't turn up on the fast modern machines, and I suspect that there are a few other things that are not placed, either.
We still hear occasionally from The Elf Herself, and Kiwi and Tennessee Ernie Ford have posted fairly recently, but no-one's heard from Greate Pier or Finland's Crazy Bear or many another of the early players for a l-o-o-o-n-g time. Bones and Chlala are still around, though.