I hope the new arrivals will be gracious as they acclimatize, as HOs are being to make them welcome in this place we have been enjoying with each other already.
Personalities are personalities, so I don’t doubt that there will be some ruffling of feathers with expectations / demands and some folks who only want to interact in exactly the way they did in the old place rather than get to know the new surroundings.
Someone used the word refugee elsewhere, and I had a negative reaction to it when I first read it, but in retrospect I think it’s a good way to think about this. There are people who were displaced from a known and comfortable “home” who are scrambling to relocate and reestablish their old community while getting used to a new place. Some have preconceived notions about this place from past (old) experience, some just want their own little street to repopulate and don’t care about the rest of the place, some will be lurkers until the dust settles and they see who’s here, who’s shown up, amd how things are going.
My own hope is that we’ll have some friendly new members on existing threads, some new/recreated humming threads for existing members to enjoy participating in, some reinvigoration of regional boards, and some brand new discussions that come up in the future that we wouldn’t otherwise have had without the new mix of all of us.
I’m (cautiously) optimistic 
