Eagl
Have you checked out http://www.flamewarriors.net/forum/index.php?
Most of the old timers are there now.
The last time I bailed on the htc forums due to a forum rule change, it seemed like all they did was complain about the rules and fling poo at each other.
I guess I don't have the emotional investment in political poo flinging that some others have

I used to get all upset about that sort of thing, but I think I grew up and I just can't get that upset about the rules in a "free" forum that someone else is paying for.
If I'm going to get upset about anything done by HTC, it's going to be about how heavy flak seems to always find me if I don't launch from capped fields (because I'm the only retard who wants to launch from a safe field therefore the flak has nobody but me to shoot at) and how 8-player H2H got turned off. But HTC knows my opinion about that and they stuck with their decisions in those areas, so again even those topics aren't worth getting too upset about.