I have to ask- what is the point of another 'Canadian' forum? The largest (of which we are all aware) has managed to hang around for years due to the content/volume already there, and any others that have been started to provide an alternate environment (like this one and the newer one posted) tend to stagnate as few people seem to leave the primary one for any length of time, despite the complaints.
What I find particularly absurd is that I spent a good buck on the software here to provide a useful and functional alternate environment, and a good amount of time posting resources initially, but somebody goes to a 'free' hosting site and creates a 'new' product thatis limited in functionality due to the limitations of the 'free' offering, it absorbs some of the flow of people 'tired' of the other forum- for awhile, until they realize the shortcomings of the 'free' hosting and the lack of historical content and go back to the older forum- and the 'new' forum eventually evaporates.
Instead of coming to a ready-made, longer-standing 'alternate' forum which has a better layout than any 'freebie' can provide and more initial content (i.e. this one)- thus helping to ensure it stays around as a proper 'alternate' Canadian forum- someone goes out to create their own universe which is, like it or not, is doomed to fail ultimately- thus further ensuring the long-term survival of the forum so many have expressed having issues with.
Frankly, based on this sort of situation constantly repeating itself every two years or so, I may simply re-package this place as a non-Canadian forum and put the users/posts from two other, larger forums I have operated/am operating into it as a combined, new place.
This may sound like a *****- but it is really more of a throwing up of my hands trying to figure out why this occurs again and again, especially when a good product (this one) exists, but people resist working together to provide a true 'alternate' to the 'old' Canadian forum. I should add here that in the past, when alternate forums popped up and then were effectively deserted by their creators- I went to them and said 'let me absorb your posts (database) to give them somewhere to live'- no one ever wanted to do it- again allowing the 'old and irritating' forum to continue on with barely any notice of the others existence. As long as people continue to do this, there will never be a proper alternate Canadian forum and everyone is just wasting their time.
That being said, at this point I think people who are obviously not serious about truly putting a dent in the 'old' forum's effective monopoly should recognize that all that is being done is the creation of a temporary location that provides them somewhere to calm down until they resign themselves to going back to the 'original'- which they will, sooner or later.