If these forums are actually going to be used for TBN, that's just a horrible move IMO. First of all, we were promised that TBN will no longer depend on forums and all features will be available in game. If we go by format of current forums, then there is no way this can co-exist with all the same functions in game, meaning things like market will still more than likely be exclusive to forums.
I don't think you understand the forums' role. The fact that Toribash has majority of community-related features integrated with forums doesn't mean that's a restriction imposed by forums or the game itself, that's just the design devs went with back in times. There's been no change in plans of keeping all the TBN features available directly from game client.
As for the confusion between Toribash and TBN related threads, we'll obviously be reorganizing forums closer to release. Some boards like Off-topic won't require separation due to their nature, but those that do will surely be updated accordingly.
So many decisions are being made behind the scenes that end up making the player base more detached from devs and staff it's getting wild.
Things that require community insight (e.g. clans/orgs related policies) are discussed with the community. Whether or not to use same forums won't be discussed with the community primarily due to the fact that there'd only be a tiny portion of people who'd know what they're talking about - same aplies to actual game development.
This, however, doesn't mean that nobody reads your feedback, but we won't act like we'll do anything people say when we know for sure that some stuff is set in stone.
We've been testing the new forums design with staff for about 2 weeks now, plan is to start public testing some time next week. The thread is still up (
https://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=628013), you're welcome to share any suggestions that you have regarding how forums should look/work.
Also,
Now hype is dead and majority of the community isn't even looking forward to TBN anymore.
That's a bold statement.