Do we know if any other DT member, past or present, also joined the forum?
JP joined and posted once in 2013, but his post is no longer showing up. Charlie Dominici joined and posted for a while, until 2011. And, as mentioned by someone else earlier, MP joined and posted during the
ADToE era. (Not a DT member, but JP's wife Rena also joined during the
ADToE era, and has posted a few messages on behalf of her husband.)
You can find out all of that and more in the 'Members' section of the forum, and sorting by 'Position' - the ones you are looking for are the 'VIP members'.
Wow. I had no idea that any of that went down. I always lurked on the MP forum because when I was a new fan, other fans told me his forum was really more like the band's forum and I'd get the latest news there and posts from him. So I never went to the official DT forum and when I started checking this one out I was surprised it was "unofficial."
Last year, I put together a brief history of the DT websites and fan communities, going back to the mid '90s. If you find it interesting, you can check it out:
Other fans like bosk, noxon, Weymolith and Setlist Scotty helped me with that, and have interesting stories to share.
Also, when did Dreamtheater.net kill their "Official" forum?
It seems they closed it sometime in the first week of November 2006. When you look at archived versions of DT.net from November 3, there's still a fully-working 'message board' link at the top, but the link is no longer there in November 7 versions. You can check it out here:
Oh and another one: I don't know or understand why Nafaryus changes sides in TA (that and the apparent focus on family values). Shouldn't have happened. I would have preferred battles being put to music.
Well, Faythe had been stabbed by her brother, and Gabriel (plus a thousand other voices) saved her. What I get from Nafaryus' lines in "Losing Faythe" and "Astonishing" is that he realises he had been too proud and selfish all that time, and he felt responsible for (almost) losing his daughter.
But I agree: the battle section in "The Path That Divides" is too cool.