Sorry to say that even though I've never loved the HTF, mostly due to the despots who run it and moderate it, some of the most ego-ridden and ignorant people ever, I did go there to check out stuff about DVD and now Blu-Ray releases and to read MattH's reviews. Their discussion board, while way too busy for my tastes, was run by vBulletin, which is sort of like most discussion boards, including this one. Their new discussion board is ridiculous - unfriendly, cold, bad-looking, difficult to navigate, filled with ads everywhere you look, slow as molasses, and on and on and on. Very few over there seem happy with it and I think it was a major miscalculation on the part of the owners. Simply, they were contacted by a company who promised them huge buckets of dough from ad revenue. And since the site began born out of the ego of its owners, and since the ego stuff is probably old these eleven years later, now it's all about revenue for them - they admit they both have day jobs and they want the HTF to pay them enough so they can quit. Are - they - MAD? People come there to read posts, not to purchase things, not to see ads floating around on every page, and since we're in a recession, this was not a very good time to do what they did. Nor will it work.
