Thanks Del.
I'm going to assume this is the general consensus, assuming that generally those who don't say anything don't feel strongly either way.
The main goal is to never repeat what happened at forumer (v1). Now that Madness owns the domain name, we'll never have to change the site address, and that's like 1/2 the battle. What remains out of his complete control now is the physical server the site is hosted from, and the forum format (to some degree). The move to SovinNai's server space will hopefully provide a permanent and uninterrupted home for TSA. It will be great to have this forum safely in the hands of a member of our own community.
What remains is the actual format of the forum that people see, and thus this topic. It doesn't look like we'll ever have our own custom site, as this would be an enormous effort and ain't nobody got time for that. SMF allows Madness to have complete access to, and backups of, all the files and post histories. We now have flexibility to change things around if needed, and there are tons of formats over at the SMF site. This topic will continue on for a while, but at some point (before we start getting an influx of members) the format will be more or less permanent.
I might wander around the SMF site and look at their forum formats. Maybe selecting a few and posting them to a vote would get more feedback than our current shotgun strategy of "anyone want anything"?