Old Elm Tree is still around. I have not seen much of it here.
I sense Taverner's forum will fail.
Of course it will fail. Its like Obamacare. You have to sign up to see what you're getting. Other forums are open for all to see on the net, that way people can see if they like it or not. But Taverner is paranoid (drug induced is my guess). So no one gets to see how crappy and intolerant the site is until they commit.
Recipe for failure.
He should open his forum up and have a section that makes fun of conservatives...but we make too much sense for that to work, or it would have been done before now.