Even if you were a spy, Dave, we've got nothing to hide.
In fact, they did seem to learn a few lessons from us bailing on them, so that's good. They're paying closer attention now, and that's good too. The sad part is, that didn't happen until we bailed. But everything is now for the better. If they succeed, that's great. The Internet's a big place and there's room for both of us.
The really funny thing is that prior to the site going down for over a week in late July, neither vangogh nor I were planning on having our own forum. We put this together as a response to their neglect (and the fact that all of vangogh's inquiries and offers to help went unanswered). We had to act fast, so we went from having no plans or even thoughts of starting our own forum, to going live with this site in approx 10 days.
We had both been there long enough to know that the members wanted a well run forum. There was no question about the need for it. Since they were not filling that need, we knew if we didn't do this, the community would fall apart.
If you never read the Thanks to the Admins thread, it's quite interesting. Vangogh and I were already actively planning this forum by the time the site came back online, but we were not revealing our plans. For one, we didn't know IF the forum would come back, nor if the database would be in tact if it did. Their database still has some noticeable issues.
Anyway, if you read that thread, you would see that members began asking about a new forum we could all go to. When that happened, we felt that if we didn't reveal our plans, the members might scatter before we had this ready, so we made the announcement, and the response was very enthusiastic.
BTW, today makes exactly one month since we opened the doors here, which was done accidently a little over a day before we planned on.