Over the past few months, I have often come to see how things are going on att. From what I saw, I can say that it is still very far from bitcointalk. And if the att management wants to attract experienced crypto enthusiasts to its ranks, then you need to develop your forum. There are several Local and then active, at the expense of enthusiasts. The rewards are (usually) lower or the pool allocated is smaller.
I doubt that it isnt trying to compete because if they do then they wont really be integrating this btt account ranks which to transfer to theirs.
Everyone might have different perception towards other forum other than this but you can tell there are still people who do get interested on this one.
Basing of threads created and post/replies and views then you can say that they are much better compared to those other new SMF forums
that is trying to mimic out this place but did fail.
Theres no hard to try though yet i do see this stuff as a good idea and i might try to hang out to that place as well.