I say, go back and look at Gearslutz.com, if you think this forum is bad. This new forum is miles beyond any of that, and beyond the older Cakewalk forum. I only have two minor, very minor gripes, but those are totally outweighed by the fact that I can actually use Firefox now.
With that said, the company they bought this forum from may be different from the previous company, and should offer good support to CW until the kinks are all worked out. I do wish I could have been in on the testing, but I think it tested out pretty well. At least I've not had any crashes on this forum like I did with Opera in the old one.