Well, I haven't been a forum member for long so I never used all the features at the old forum. However, it seemed to work just fine, so why change it?
This new one is way too S L O O O O W!
Hopefully it will get fast and I assume there were good reasons to get the new one. I don't know if this transition was announced, but if it was, I completely missed it. I found out when I tried to log in only to find out I couldn't. I wound up sending two e-mails to the webmaster, both unanswered, and finally by trial and error, I got my password reset and got in. Nice to be back.