Is that why all you other guys "jumped Ship" .., as I see that other forum is still in operation ?
Short version: We all woke up one morning to an "upgrade" from vBulletin4 to vB5, and it was terrible - people kept getting logged out constantly, the PM system was unusable for some of us, posts were disappearing, the "last post" function was completely inaccurate...in short the place was incredibly frustrating and non-functional. Paman posted a thread saying that "we" had done an upgrade and people should note any problems in the thread.
People started out politely observing the problems. The mod team, which had not been informed of the switch, distanced themselves from any knowledge of what was going on. Paman did not reply at all, and wm didn't say anything for days, when she finally posted a weak note in the mod channel (not readable by the general members) that said something like "yes, it is a bit buggy, we'll work on it." But, no apology or acknowledgment that it was inappropriate to dump a poorly-vetted "upgrade" on the membership without even doing the moderation team the courtesy of a heads up.
So after many days (eons in internet time) without any response from the admins, the mods (plus me - at that time I was not actively modding the old forum, but I was still "one of the gang", so to speak) resigned and our accounts were hijacked. We were still listed as members but in fact we couldn't even sign in.
Paman finally weighed in (this must have been 10 days or 2 weeks after the debacle began, I'm not sure since I didn't keep a timeline) saying he had been traveling on business and had been too busy to check the forum. Anyone who continued to complain over there got a temporary ban. Paman also posted a note saying the mods had "sabotaged" the site. It took quite a while, but eventually all the mods had "banned" listed under their names, which is something of a relief since it was frustrating to be listed as a member and yet be barred from site. I believe the bugs have been fixed but since I'm IP-banned my forays over there are somewhat limited.
You know what they always say on internet message boards: "if you don't like the way we do things, feel free to go start your own forum." So - thanks in large part to the awesome technical prowess of dafluff and El_Goretto - that's exactly what we did. All but a few of the old members came over and registered at this new site.
We're trying to do a few things differently here, such as setting up a very lightly moderated section which will be known as the Cage, and organizing some of the crowd-sourced information to make it more easily accessible from the start.
So that's the basic story. Welcome, and thank you for joining us!