If they wanted a friendly merger they should stop acting like this site is a shithole with nothing to offer, or that Daniel owes them the database.
Can you name anyone who acts like this, aside from Thork?
There's an underlying dislike of John Davis that drives a lot of this, which I don't get because he's almost always been nice about things. When he says something out of order he apologizes for it. People say lots of nasty shit to him, so it should be understandable that he snaps back sometimes.
In actuality, most of his resentment towards us is completely unprovoked. He employed a hostile word filter against us without provocation, and called us terrorists and deplorable human beings without provocation. Apologies hardly mean anything if you continue to repeat your mistakes.
Despite that, I don't think it's true that a dislike for John is driving this conversation. If anything, the opposite is true. If we weren't willing to cooperate with him, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
My main objection to the merger is that it's unnecessary. Everyone who posts over there are still welcome to post here, even Thork! Why should Daniel hand it all over to people he doesn't know and isn't friends with? John has been steadily making the technical side better, and no matter how good Parsifal is, no one is perfect. Any forum that draws this kind of attention is going to lag or have downtime now and then.
Let me ask you this: don't you want the userbase to be unified? Because that really is the crux of the issue. You might think it's unnecessary, but even if you think there's any benefit to having a unified userbase, I think it warrants discussion. We both miss out on a huge amount of discussions that could be better served in a single forum, and for those who do use both sites it's a nuisance to have to browse two different sites and talk to two different sets of users.