Hi Meng ,glad to see how the "owner" interacts with the community....the forum is an important part of Sonar world,takes care of it,it's not important where....for me.
Best regards

A new forum would be fine by me. I think a fresh start would be quite fitting given the previous period of uncertainty 

As long as

• every thread is left intact,
• old posts are accessible,
• accounts maintained as is and
• the forum supports mobile browsing,

changing forum software is alright.

A fresh start sounds great and will allow yourselves as the new owners to really put your stamp on the new Sonar.

I started up Sonar for the first time in many weeks yesterday once I saw the news, looking forward to the future.

A couple more forum software alternatives...
 
Vanilla Forums - reportedly adopted by 300,000+ businesses, brands, and fans with 450+ plugins, so far.
https://vanillaforums.com/en/software
 
Discourse - from the folks that brought us Stack Overflow
https://www.discourse.org

No objection here.  You had me at "The news you've all been hoping for..."

I think it's a great idea, with the usual couple of caveats:
 

• As Karyn said, keep the thread structure as it is
• Lock the old forum but make it searchable (btw, a large % of the older "solutions" aren't really solutions as far as Platinum is concerned, so having access to the old threads is maybe not that crucial)
• Support for mobile platforms (IOS & Android)

I see no problem with that. As long as the existing content is not lost in the process, migrating not required as you say that would coplicate things, but at least keeping it accessible for reference purposes since it is basically a big help/support/resource container at this point. 

Sounds great!
Well right now my heart is soaring like an eagle so I guess everything you suggest right now will be fine with me. :)
But yeah. Sounds like a great idea for a sound fresh start.
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This sounds like a plan to me, like others have said the basic format needs to stay.

Look forward to such a move.

Thanks for asking.