If I were to guess, I'd say that many members would stay in contact via dA! (deviantART) just to exchange public messages on each others' personal pages and private messages via dA!'s Notes system since dA! (Whether you like it or hate it) is that well known among the members here. You can create a somewhat equivalent of a public thread (i.e. - There are no threads that are hidden from view outside our forum) on your own personal page using dA!'s Journal but you'd be under stricter scrutiny by the dA! admins about what you are allowed to write/post inside the Journal). It just wouldn't be the same like on this forum, though. This site is not perfect (IMHO, there are a few things that could be improved) but it's the best option that we have out of all the other ones in the World!
But enough "Doom and gloom"! Although Ai did say that he would give us a month's advance notice if the worse case scenario were to happen, he also did say that for the present, the worse case scenario is a "very, very, very remote possibility".
