It's nice that the two fanbases can each have their own place. I think of the EGS forums years ago, when there had been a major shift in the comic which had split the audience. It wasn't nice. It ended up with one side deciding to leave the forum to open one for the like-minded, while the author ceased to frequent the original* forum and actually even stopped considering it official and removed the link from his website. Now he's using reddit.

*it was actually the second, I believe, from migrating from Keenspot to GMX.