Free Forums under new ownership

That goes without saying. Nothing is free in this world including the new forum where we are now, however, if we have to look at ads it may as well be on the old platform with 10 years worth of content.

I have to agree , a huge migration effort is underway by forum leadership and the community as a whole, asking everyone to abandon that would be disrespecting their effort.

Leaving the old platform was a decision forced on the forum by circumstance, not by arbitrary fiat (calling that disrespectful is a bit unreasonable), further to that the history and work that old platform represents are efforts that happened organically over years, where the migration has been herculean in a matter of weeks.

This would be best afaic.

Either that or we declare allegiance to one or the other and have a continuous feud that gets played out in the respective games for A&A supremacy

Assuming it remains active and "free". If the new owners change the business model it's unlikely to be cost effective to maintain. 

I don't think there is a "safe" choice. This host could go down too. Nothing has much permanence on the Internet. I like the improved interface on the new site, but I definitely hate to see the amount of information we are going to lose. I have moved just a few threads for the Deck E card development project (among other things) and it is a horrendously tedious and time consuming task just to move one thread! I think we can save the most important and often-used stuff (maybe), but we will lose a ton of "archival" information. The previous card development sub-forums and threads are definitely going to be lost. There is just no way those are going to be saved. Although maybe that is a good thing!

Anyway, I suspect we will stay here now that we have got the ball rolling, but I could go either direction. If it won't cost us anything I would definitely like to see the old site kept functioning just for the information stored. At least for awhile. It would give us more time to understand what information we would like to save and get it moved. We are not going to catch it all in two months.