The forum that used to be there used to contain some valuable discussions, mostly on story and game design, I think. Is it going to be brought back? I think until the project gets a momentum of its own and takes off it's the best option to use this forum instead of a seperate, Mechaius-dedicated one, as you already have the JJ2 community here (I think that was one of the reasons original discussion on the mechaius forum died out), but having an archive of it would be good.