I used to be a diehard Forrst user. It was an awesome community--a core site that I contributed to and drew from everyday. Then, last March, they sold to Colourlovers...and everything went to hell. The quality of the posts went way down. Feedback went down. Comments became vehicles for spam. Community standards were no longer enforced. Forrst right now is a wasteland compared to what it was a year ago.
What ZURB is buying is not what Colourlovers bought.
WARNING - Opinions! Feedback on Forrst was generally meaningless, the community was immature and the quality of work and questions was really, really low.
Forrst has been a wasteland (like you mentioned) for quite awhile now. I feel like it's going to take a lot to get the original steam back.
I left mid-summer, so not presently, no. Appreciate that, and I'm hopeful that it's in good hands with Zurb.
> We're committed to listening, participating and fostering a healthy design community.
I can't really think of any cases where some web service was loved, and then hated and then managed to restore its reputation. Watching a formerly great service crash and burn leaves a bitter taste in the mouths of users resulting in a situation that I believe is much harder to undo than it would be to just create a "spiritual successor" follow-up with a different brand name.