Not dismissive at all actually - it is a very surprising thing to do in the web World, to change from an established website address to a completely different one and leave the old one without at least a link/redirection to the new one. It gave me (and will I promise give others) the impression that they have gone completely.
I do not believe the forum is anything like "ex-pats at their worst", there are places in the "real World" to see that, every single day. There are also "similar" websites that have come and some have also gone that have/had around 0.1% of our traffic but about 20x more rumour and attacks than we could ever muster
No, this is a website that helps, supports, advises and amuses - I find it strange how people who never joined CBF have the belief that they know exactly what it is like, and furthermore it amuses me that none of them have any time for it but are on it in minutes when someone says something that they disagree with!!!
For the record, once I had been (kindly) informed that the old website for AA is gone, and pointed towards the new one, I found them to be very helpful indeed. Weren't expecting that were you, "tigger"!