Originally Posted by
tom911
OMNI is the most popular forum on FT (UA was back when you and I joined). As it is the most popular, every FTer should be welcome there. Right now the most popular forum on FT is a restricted forum that most FTers cannot access and post in. I notice a number of members that use OMNI as their "home" forum. No reason that every FTer can't also make it their home forum if they want.
If that is true, the it would be wise for the owners and masters of this board to create a new and separate board called Omni. It could even be linked to this board and people could keep their handles. It would be a trivial task (relative to a completely new site) and I am sure that all the people who use Omni would continue to use it. But it should not be the heart of Flyertalk, or in any way an equal part of Flyertalk. And if it is truly super popular, it will grow well on its own and be more profitable for the owners.