Wasn't the site for sale before all this?
Perhaps the owner got the shits and gave us the big raspberry.
I don't know , but it seems to me that a whole new thing is needed.
This site right here is slow and over complicated.
We need to have a new creation.
Forumcircle might be a good one. But the bottom line is that someone needs to do something to get the show back on the road. This is the pits.
It wouldn't be the owner.
I'm a bit surprised you say this site is slow and the old one fast, i often gave up on the old aussiefrogs site and guessed correctly (obvious now) that it was on a big US virtual space.
This site i guess has less traffic but has always been super fast for me.
There is a clear thing to note here, while the big US companies are cheap they have REALLY crap customer service and stupid automated systems, you wont necessarily know until it bites you.
ALL (well 99%) hosting review sites are made and run by big US hosting companies, put negative comments about a hosting company up and notice how it disappears, go to whirlpool.net.au for real advice.
I had a site taken off line once by an auto system at 3pm saturday with no warning and no-one capable of fixing the issue (bandwidth overuse) until Monday morning. ie. the account went into whatever state, we couldn't just pay for the extra bandwidth or upgrade, they just turned it off and didnt care less. Thankfully they at least could give me ftp access to get the latest data off 1 hour later and auto refunded the money.