The decision has been made, accept it and move on. BioWare doesn't care and showing how much this move hurt you won't change anything. People are saving the important threads, that's all we need really. Let the rest die in peace and remember it fondly.
It's a decision that makes no and a lot of sense at the same time. It's a mistake and we all know it. It has been said a hundred times by now, let's just stop here.
BioWare doesn't value their fanbase anymore, so why should we waste any time or energy on them? We already know that nothing we do or say will have any effect. Instead we should take a deep breath, lean back and watch them struggle with their social media. In a year or two they'll need a place for ME:A Multiplayer, a place they can moderate themselves because Reddit is not going to work for that and all their other options are even worse for weekly balance threads and similiar things. They'll have to create a new forum for that then... or watch their shiny new game go down in flames because there is no multiplayer without an online community.
I wonder what their marketing team had to say about closing the forum, or if they were consulted at all.
Self made problem* aggravated over years until the only easy solution left was to burn it all down. Because hiring an actual community manager to connect the fanbase with the devs through the forum would be too difficult, they'd have to undo years of damage first and then navigate the BioWare office politics to get the information they need to answer the questions coming up in the forum.
Someone was clever and decided that a complete reboot would solve most problems with the forum. In typical BioWare manner they overlooked the new problems that would create though.
"We don't want to deal with critique anymore, so we're concentrating on venues where we have little or no control over posts." - BioWare logic. ^^
So, an era comes to an end. Remember the good times and move on. There will be new memories made in the future. Maybe not based on a BioWare game, but does that really matter to us in the end? It's not like they are the only game studio around.
*I especially love the part about the self fulfilling prophecy of "The BioWare forums are toxic!" Yeah well, if you repeat it over and over again, people will believe it and that changes how they interact here