If the merger isn't an April Fools joke, I'm certain TF is very much regretting the timing of the announcement. Throw in the wholesale locking/moving/deletion of threads by an unknown mod at about 6PM EDT yesterday (many of which were in no way spammy or merger-related) and I'm inclined to just say frack it and stay away for a while till the dust settles - except with two CivIVor games in progress and another starting just last night (another case of bad timing I suppose) it'd just add to the pain.