Yes, there are downsides. You might not like the theme. There are two themes available to you, prosilver, the default, and subsilver2, which looks like the old subSilver from our previous phpBB2 boards.
EDIT: subsilver2 is now the default. I think it's better that way for now.
There are some cool upsides, though! For example, you can now embed flash into your posts, and you can post attachments. You can report posts and the moderators will see your reports. If any of this stuff is abused, it can be removed from your account and we will not hesitate to do that.
Speaking of administrative abilities, this forum is much more robust in that field. For example, now we no longer have to replace your sigs for being too tall or wide--the forum will do that for us. We may also choose to bring back the word censor, because now individual users can disable it as they please. These boards also have a built-in captcha system to prevent bots from registering.
I know you guys will have complaints; post them here and I will try to address them. This board is overwhelming for me as there are plenty of new features, and because I don't use many features it appears bloated to me. I will get over this. You will probably get over your complaints over time as well. These new boards really are excellent, though, so I believe the move was worth it.
Also, since the permissions system has been overhauled, I did a lot of moving around with usergroups and permissions. If you have found yourself without permissions that you should have, let me know and I can set you back up. If for some reason you have permissions you shouldn't, be honest and 'fess up (this shouldn't be an issue, though--this board makes it a whole lot easier to see who has access to what).
Let me know how you feel, but don't get too bitchy.
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Also, you will have to reupload your avatars, unfortunately.
If you lost your avatar, you can find it again at http://dcemulation.org/phpBB_old/
Also, offsite ranks have been lost, if you have a custom rank that was offsite and is no longer working, please post about it with a link to the rank and I will fix it.