I generally only visit aw.net if directed there by a link in a news story here or on ann (although ann is pretty much dead itself since registration became compulsory).
I disliked aw.net for claiming to be an Amiga community site while discriminating against the large sections of the Amiga community who are MOS or AROS users. I have no such problem with amigans.net, since they make no claim to cater for the Amiga community, but only for OS4 users, and they state this in their terms which is fine by me and I wish them luck.
From what I understand, aw.net has improved dramatically since the departure of certain moderators but I still have no great desire to become a regular visitor there. In the old days it was impossible to have a discussion on the merits of the respective alternatives because as soon as you mentioned anything such as MOS's faster 68k JIT or suggesting that perhaps the Pegasos II was a better piece of hardware than the AmigaOne you'd have a dozen abuse reports and a torrent of abuse calling for you to be burned as a heretic. This led to a higher level of technical naivete because it is impossible to have a discussion of the technical merits of one system without reference to others.
