This thought occurred to me as well back when Sapphi hadn't yet started the fansubbing project. It didn't bring us new people nearly as much as everybody hoped, but it means, nevertheless, we are again the forum of a legit subbing group. In my opinion that prevents us from haphazardly merging with another such forum. Assuming there was a site who would like to merge with an ancient one like Gotwoot with its elitist members... Typically a forum is meant to serve the purposes of its owners, not the purposes of outsiders, which would mean, in practice, that either the other forum's members would feel uncomfortable under our rules or we would lose our rules and feel uncomfortable under theirs. Not that merging two dying forums would make a new virile one, in the first place, so we would need to merge with a vigorous forum and lose our own identity entirely.

I deem this a difficult solution to our problems.