HJ was never that fond of the backroom I don't think. The gripe he had was that everyone just bunked off in there and never clicked on any advertising/links to earn money! 2-3 weeks downtime is an eternity in cyberspace.
The switch seemed rather sudden as though there was a bit of a spat and the new team was hastily drafted in to write a forum. There is tons of forum software out there that could have been munged to fit and most of it would work better than whats up there now.
If they had any sense they would have gone for vbulletin which allows subscriptions so they could have had people choose to pay money to avoid all the advertising.
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