Griff, you and your forum remind me of a famous Winston Churchill quote:
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk.
Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and, what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.

Yes, their forum goes down but at least it is temporary. THe problems of your forum (hardly any users, full of ads, you keep banning people, terrible format etc etcetc) are permanent. If you want to have a good forum (something more and more important as the other one heads over to the trust) you will need to sort this one out so it can actual do well. I know like being mod to much to stand down but maybe consider getting someone younger and more techsavy in to help you? If we have one trust forum and one crap forum then we have no good forum