I am still alive and kickin'!
It's just that I have submersed myself into nopCommerce for an e-commerce solution. It does the job, but the team there dabbled in what seems to be most of the popular elements of e-commerce while not thoroughly ironing out the details in certain areas in order (especially, imho, how it presents to the user).
This, apparently, was done on purpose, because on issues that seem of importance to me (and to other users' questions) of which I have posted in their community forums, the standard reply is that such and such (interest that was posted) will be left to customization.
It seems the nopCommerece team purposely leaves the code as a bare-bones solution, in some respects, in order to attract developers to get in on the action of making some side cash on their MODs.
Sometimes, a person like myself might get help on coding questions and sometimes not. The community is not particularly versed in Linux inquiries although they do offer support as well as a version to work on Linux.
A person with some coding knowledge can make it work, but it does lack some attractive ease. I had to alter a lot of the "Views" to fit my needs. Other than that, it functions well enough to work as expected.
I do miss working with my Snitz stuff. I moved over to Linux because of Windows' entitlement issues.
I am having a good experience in learning the NopCommerce coding style. It's been an adventure for sure.