A lot of you still haven't been over to the testing area for the forum software upgrade (LINK UPDATED 9/21/14). Please take a moment to do it today, as we'll soon commit to making this change, and we'd like as many of you as possible to take it for a quick test-drive before we throw the switch.
Repeating yesterday's announcement:
As most of you are aware, since we put the ill-fated Netscape experience behind us, we've been running this forum on the excellent open-source forum software, PhpBB. I think just about everyone has been happy with it.
Now, to hail the New Year, we're planning to migrate the forum to the newly updated Version 3 of PhpBB. Don't worry, this is not another Netscape debacle.
Version 3 is simply an evolutionary development of our Version 2. It looks similar and works in a similar way - it should not require extensive re-learning. It does contain a few new bells and whistles which we hope you'll enjoy ... you're certainly not required to use them, but you may enjoy discovering them. The more important changes, though, are under the hood and won't be immediately obvious to you, but they will help the forum to run faster, better and more securely (not a trivial matter if you noticed what happened to Wine Therapy last week).Anyway, I'm posting here, in the Kitchen and Friends & Fun to urge you all to pop over and give the new setup a try. Please notice that it's in beta testing, so don't post anything important over there just yet; it may not be retained when we move the forum in full. Do check it out, though, and I'll be there to answer any questions you may have about the changes and differences.
New Forum here
(You'll need to log in again, using your regular forum user name and password.)
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