Lets see what happens. But if you are right - AAO is getting the first community support in it's history (we don't call the official forums "community support" - do we ?).
But I'm glad that HL is departing, cos their auth servers work only for the official servers and are down alot of time.
Actually, it's just the windows-version of AA that's broken/bugged.
DOD has converted all its servers to linux-servers (good work Kisoon), which simply do not have any such problems. We can now enjoy auth-on and pb-on, trouble-free matches (server-wise anyway ).
Perhaps other squads could consider making the same move.