Just a few points:

There is no new owner. While HCMF was apparently briefly on the block, ownership was never changed. Without getting into too much detail, HCMF's  owner  has a lot going on this summer in real life and has had to pull back his involvement with the day to day stuff. He thought briefly about selling the site, but changed his mind after a week or two.

The new forum can be maddenly slow a times, i agree. I am not a web developer, so i dont know why this is. I do know that i visit other PHP based websites all the time that are not slow. So, in my limited knowlege of the situation, it seems to me that there must be some flaws in the site code for hardcoreforum. Of course the main problem is that the vast bulk of the coding is being done by one person, who isnt getting paid, and who has to do it on his own free time. So getting things fixed and/or improved over there can take awhile. But i do know that they have asked the HCMF community for help in the past and have had those requests met with deafening silence. So to complain about how the new site runs now seems a bit hypocritical.

As far as thank youing goes at hardcoreforum, it is slowly increasing. I think for the most part, people were using HCMF as their source for most of their downloading, and only going to Hardcoreforum to get the few posts that werent posted at HCMF. Just before HCMF went out, i had a post break 11,000 page views at the new forum, and the Top 10 Viewed posts routinely have a few with 4000 or 5000+ . So traffic is increasing. This recent outage at HCMF seems to have spurred activity there a little too. Its a chicken-egg conundrum. You dont want to post there because there isnt enough traffic to justify your time and effort, but traffic wont increase unless the prolific posters like you embrace the new forum and give people a reason to go there. Holy Catch-22 Batman!

Thats why ive been posting my full movies at Hardcoreforum, and then crossposting one scene from each movie at HCMF. If there isnt any unique content at Hardcoreforum, there isnt any reason for anyone to go there.

As for what i think has been implied a few times, this downtime at HCMF was not intentional. I have nbot spoken to the owner specifically about this, but in the converstaions we have had in the past about the roles each site were going to play, the owner has been adament about not shutting HCMF down. So i dont believe that this is intentional.

I hope that your parting sentences werent a subtle goodbye. You have been one of the truly outstanding posters here for a long time, and losing you and your contributions would be a great blow to this community. If  posting at HCMF is truly that important to you, and posting at Hardcorforum truly that distasteful, then by all means post at the OT forum. I think you'll find that you wont get even as much traffic as you would at Hardcoreforum, but feel free to try. Personally, i think that if you post at Hardcoreforum, your fans will follow. But do what you want to do.


Hope this helps.

strongasbull