this site will not go down again
if the forums goes down next time we will have a temp forums set up and announced
The way things have been the last few weeks, I'll believe it when I see it. In the mean time there's no harm in not having a pre-determined alternative set up preemptively.
It would be foolish to discourage this, only so when things DO go down again, everybody is left in the dark and has to find an atlernative through word of mouth.