I agree, the members make the forum. We have some wonderful people around here.

I just spoke with the new owner a little bit. You will be relieved to hear that there are no plans for ads to be inserted in the site. If you see ads appear at any point in the future, it would be out of necessity to help pay for hosting, etc. This is not going to be a "for-profit" commercial site with tons of banners, links and so on.

The forum reorganization of the front page and forums structure has begun. The dust should settle in a day or two on that.