Secondly altcointalk is hosted outside the U.S jurisdiction, it's one of the safest forum out there. Something theymos should have done a long time ago.
I don't know why theymos can't change the hosting location. It's not a very hard job at all.
I'm not sure why the Satoshi old forum moved to the US server, and with all the shady limitations and legislation in the US, theymos never considered shifting the server location to somewhere much safer. I admire the admin of the ATL forum and his dedication to data security.
Ads everywhere. Altcointalk looks like Las Vegas.
It's work in progress, alot of reshuffling is currently going on and sooner or later BTT will have a serious competition