Ive checked out both of those alternative forums, beyond cakewalk and the mods one, ....ahhh...looks messy...confusing.....if this forum doesn't stay up I hope an alternative forum is created that is as well layed out as this one.

Maybe you should create one to your liking. I think it's extremely nice of those folks to create a place for us to go.

The forum software here is made by ASP Playground. It's not free and AFAIK runs on Windows servers, which cost more than Linux servers - my point being that if you want a forum that looks and works just like this one, it's going to come at a price.

By comparison, the beyondcakewalk forum uses MyBB software and sonarmods uses Simple Machines software - both of these are free forum software and probably running on low-cost Linux servers, so those forums are less expensive to run than this forum. Additionally, if enough people requested it those other forums could change themes and try to look more like this forum, but that's up to the individual forum owners.  

a 3rd?
 
No more fragmentation please.
Suck it up, let it go and come over to Bapu's place.

This is kind of like people trying new DAW's and claiming that they can't make head nor tail of the GUI before they've given their eyes time to adjust. I've been on the BeyondCakewalk forum a few times and it now looks totally fine to me. 

Fair enough, I was just putting it out there, I didn't really know whats involved with creating a forum......it is great that they've done it, I guess, once this website does completely go down, then everyone will flock over to the alternative

beyondcakewalk.com (if you are a registered user) currently has 6 alternative themes. Some are gaudy and some are subtle on the eyes. Yes the default is a bit "bright". And I'm currenty conducting a poll as to what theme users are using. 
 
Plan B offers themes too. 
 

I think they both are great, as are the guys that put in the work!

bapu
beyondcakewalk.com (if you are a registered user) currently has 6 alternative themes. Some are gaudy and some are subtle on the eyes. Yes the default is a bit "bright". And I'm currenty conducting a poll as to what theme users are using. 
 
Plan B offers themes too. 
 

 
Frankly I think the default theme is the only acceptable one! I quite like the dark one (Lunorian) but it clashes with the logo. 

Thanx bapu ,keep up the good work......ill play around with the themes later