I hope you guys can stick around to wait and see. As moderator on Indy for the last little while I can tell you, it's a very decent community. No and I mean ZERO drama, angst or pettiness, just a great bunch of people who a
really into diverse and niche comics from fantastic and typically under-recognised smaller publishers, and who keep a forum humming nicely along despite that fact that, yeah, it IS often deluged with daily front page News threads.
To the issue of News threads, it's for this reason I began keeping a sizable roster of sticky threads with aim of helping make the forum easier and more interesting to visit. You can see what I mean at the
old board here and further rationale
here. It was an experiment that fortunately seemed to work with activity picking up since it began. In time I'll begin maintaining stickies again however I think it's best to let the board develop organically a bit first.
The fact that the Classics and Indy crowd will now be intermingling is pretty cool I think (bear in mind Image has its own board) . The "ghoulash" (nice metaphor!) will make the forum a more vibrant, interesting and lively place and I think both groups will find they have more in common than they might expect.
Looking forward to catching you all in there.