tl;dr: I just don't see the point in starting these boards if all of the people who know the most about FET almost exclusively restrict their posts to threads about the NFL and Star Trek.
What exactly are y'all planning on saying in the press release? "New FES splinters from old and starts forum for discussing Star Trek and Bitcoin." So far, that's about the sum of it.
I get that these new boards were founded by users who were on .org for a very long time and who discussed FET with others so much that it got old. And, I get that these users grew tired of having the same debate/argument over and over again. That makes perfect sense. But if this site contains only (or mostly) FEB-ers who explicitly look down on posting about FET (Thork) because it's too lame or easy or tiresome or whatever, then why not just start a social club and ditch the FES aspect of it all? What's the point?
My sarcastic tone aside, this is a genuine suggestion. And hopefully it's obvious that this isn't a TK-style plea for attention to my posts since I basically only post here once a week and only to argue with Tom. The people who know the most about this subject and who have the most to add should use the upper boards as a way to advance that knowledge. Maybe this requires a fresh outlook, attitude, or process for the upper boards. Maybe they need a new directive or function. I dunno. It just seems silly to me to start a new FES and then never really discuss FET.
e: I feel like it's worth adding that this isn't at all meant to be a OMG U DOODS SUCK post. There is a lot to like about the new site and the new leadership. Y'all are actually proactive and appear to be advancing a real agenda, and that's definitely laudable. And, the new site itself obviously runs much better than .org now that people are actually running and paying attention to the site. But once those things start working and you start bringing new people to these boards, what are they going to see? What is someone who is directed by your press release to this site going to see? They're going to see a few random, disjointed threads that are sometimes only tangentially related to FET (you can blame me for at least one of those), and then a bunch of threads about random stuff.