As I mentioned, there was talk of reviving the old “old forum”…and that is underway. This entire forum history can be migrated over there, and there is even a way to migrate the accounts…so that everyone won’t have to create a new one.
This one doesn’t seem to be down now as much as it was the last day and a half, so if you can hold out for a little longer, you won’t have to worry about creating new accounts, as well as you won’t have a bunch of new discussions that will get lost in a forum that probably won’t grow (as, if this one gets migrated, there’d be no reason for anyone to switch to this one that fephisto just created.)