Our website has both a "public" and "membership" area. The forum is a small part of it, and its used by some of the members once in awhile. Its not in any way meant to compete with "open boards" like this one, or even the magazine ones.
Our membership site is mostly used for the archives of educational material that we have there.
What you have here at Mikeysboard, for free, for now, is an example of the value of information exchanged from individuals who truly care for this industry and each other. And we owe a great deal of thanks to Tony (aka Harry Hides) for his work in the Outhouse.