I got to chef talk completely by mistake - I was mainly using another forum and made a mistake typing in the name and got this one. The people there were (are) really nice too, and there is a good atmosphere. I am partial to it because they helped me with a big project i had and gave me lots of good advice. I know plenty of people here are also on it, some because they use the same screen name and some because they post the same post on both. (I have a different name).
Unfortunately, at a certain point they decided to "improve" it. The forum was off for i think about a month. That was plenty of time for everyone to go find other forums i guess, because though the new forum looked nicer, now there are far fewer posts. It can go days and days without a new post on some of the subforums, like baking. It's too bad, too, it was a nice forum. I wrote to the what do you call it, the manager, the originator, whatever, and said it was too bad there was much less activity after the "improvement" but he denied it.
It made me think of a story someone told me about a very popular restaurant that did so well at a certain point they decided to reinvest some of their earnings in renovating the restaurant. It was closed about a month or so, and when it opened it was much nicer, more comfortable, more pleasant, and empty. The old clients just didn't come back. (could be an urban legend, but no matter, i know this does happen). Anyway, the moral being, don't try to improve a good thing. So i just hope nobody here gets the idea to "improve" it.