It's a new forum and like all things new, it will take time to grow and mature. It's in no way ever going to cause conflict with here. Many of the members on here are members of the other forums too and don't see any war going on there.
I think it's a good idea to have all the trades on a single forum. How many times have we faced a problem on a job with electrics or joinery or brickwork or just any other trade that we are not clued up about. We can now ask about it on the one forum instead of trawling through several.
The more join up, then the more posts it will get and the quicker it will grow. It will be a useful asset to run alongside this and the other forums, not to merge or replace it which is not going to happen.
I can see great potential with it and will stick it out over there as well as coming on here.