Many people (myself included) feared that the forums would be tainted by the fire sale

I am one of the users who bought an Empeg and found this BBS through the fire sale, but I bought an Empeg, not a totally different product. The Empeg had a production run of about 4000 units (off the top of my head) and it is much more involved to install and upgrade than a portable unit. Really, how much discussion is going to occur about the Karma before most everything has been said? With the Empeg, new things are popping up all the time (Emphatic, Palantir, EmpegFace) and more could be expected because the Empeg is an extremely open platform that runs Linux, not a firmware-based portable.