First of all, if you would have just slipped out the back door, I would have been majorly pissed off. Friends wouldn't do that to friends. Also it is good that you explained why you are leaving. Perhaps, just perhaps, it will wake up the powers to be just how the members who post here feel and that it could happen to many more.
The deal of which you speak, I thought, was a given. The other forum is just as open and free as this one and when I read the posts on other threads here about your leaving and your broader exposure on the other forum, this olde curmudgeon would be gravely disappointed if anything changed. Remember as we queens age (and I recently turned 75) we really don't like things to change - lol !!! So no talk of "dropping in from time to time" and "I may even start threads to use all the pics...". As Nike tells us: "Just Do It!".
And on a personal note, I would miss your presence on the internet. I've grown to consider you a friend and I would not like not being in contact with you.
And Robert won't have a heart attack. I don't know if he has a thing against pictures of naked young men, but he does have the option not to look, I, and I'm not alone on this, would miss the threads you post with gorgeous young men in various stages of undress - mostly naked. I personally would especially miss Hump Day Wednesdays. And I know that a fellow forum friend, our gentle San Francisco hair stylist would feel the same way about HDW,
So on April 12 just drive your dream car to the other gas station, the one where all your friends will be waiting.