HelpMeFind has always been about providing a "tool" for the gardening community, it was never about providing a "service". The first several years (quite a few actually), before there were any of the absolutely incredible volunteers involved, the founders built the site and maintained its content themselves.

HelpMeFind is all custom software which provides for the greatest flexibility in implementing features optimized for easy of use and convenience. HMF is old enough to have originally concentrated on developing a website for non-computer savvy users. The internet and computer use have come a long way since then and HMF has adjusted.

It is understandable some of HMF's features have been more difficult and time consuming to design and implement. One such area is the automated maintenance of any listing's plant list by uploading a simple list of plant names. The software goes to great lengths to simplify the process. Issues like multiple plants sharing the same name, common misspellings, non-standard abbreviations, etc. are are highlighted and very easily resolved. The process is divided into several steps with well documented pop up help available on each. Information from prior uploads is saved so one does not have to repeat the matching process each season.

Unfortunately, the very limited use of this feature has never justified its development time and cost, we've always been disappointed by that. We have planned for some time to write an in depth article demonstrating its use - maybe the blame lies with us.

Yes, same here. I have copied in their address again. Now it works.