Hey guys- I just bought these forums and I am excited to say hi! I realize that there is an introductions sub-forum, but I hope you'll forgive me the liberty of posting in the off-topic forum.
I am building a network of forums called CrowdGather and I am very excited to include AllTopix in that universe. When we launch in January, all members of participating forums will have universal sign-on with their existing usernames on any of the forums in the network. As part of this, the only sinificant change you will encounter will be the move to vbulletin as the core forum platform. I usually leave existing moderators in place.
Currently Networked (one log-on and username):
http://www.genmay.com http://www.abxzone.com http://www.spiceforums.com http://www.lovethatsound.com http://www.eternal-allegiance.com http://www.graffittispot.com http://www.bigscreentalk.com http://www.forumbabes.com
Newer forums (pending conversion to vbulletin and/or central log-on):
http://www.alltopix.com http://www.talkvideogames.com http://www.democracyforums.com http://www.theweathervane------ http://www.metalthrone.com
I am the founding owner of
http://www.genmay.com and the rest of the forums are those that I have purchased over time. Crowdgather's vision is that forums have been treated like the step-children of the internet for too long and there needs to be a way to centralize 'search', 'user-profiles' and 'messaging' across multiple forums. We will also have a facebook plug-in that allows you to get thread-feeds and forum PM's while you are on Facebook.
Feel free to ask me any questions.
Sanjay
greetings from new owner~ 
