Moving the forum to ZI would be a horrifyingly bad idea. Regardless of how much of a "community" they still have or don't have, they still have a very severe reputation for being the most toxic site remaining in the whole Zelda Community. Consolidating forums over there will permanently pass on that reputation to it with no way to get rid of it. This will give us far too many problems. And it can attract a lot of new drama to it, and none of us like that. If there's consolidation, what little remains of the ZI forum community should be brought over here. We can handle ourselves if anything gets out of line. And with luck, we can work together peacefully. But there's no getting around ZI's very negative reputation. It will have little impact on its news articles, but it will be detrimental to any community that is over there. This community is firmly established and "retaining posts" moving it over there will not stop it from being permanently damaged by it.
I recognize the benefits of this acquisition. ZI is very good with news and social outreach. It's something that can help us out a lot. They're inhumanely good at social outreach and that'll be invaluable. But our community needs to remain here. It'd be in our best interest. It has taken a lot of work to get our forums to the point there are now. And dismantling them to move them to ZI would undermine all that work and destroy this community. Since ZI's forum community is struggling to even exist right now, the best option is to bring them over here if they still want to operate in a forum environment.
