We're going to give the forums a much needed modern face lift this month with consolidating many of the categories and topics. While the forums have always been separated into a plethora of topics to help keep discussions contained, it's also lead to both information overload and dead topics for a long time. I know there is a list of features (or full blown software upgrades) that have been requested, this is just the first step in trying to make the forums easier to manage and navigate.

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Wyrom, PM

Just wanted to touch base on what to expect with these upcoming changes.

First of all, this is not a software update. While I know many of you want us to upgrade (myself included), it's beyond my pay grade. What I can do is make the forums a little more manageable to keep up on announcements and discussions by reducing the noise.

The day we start doing this, the forums are going to look odd. We'll have to build the categories and topics as we go. It might take a day or so before we're back fully. I'll hopefully be able to keep you all informed as we begin.

Links are going to break. I've talked this over with onsite, and there aren't a lot of options here with what our plans are. Many topics will also be starting fresh with no past posts. Everything will be preserved on the staff side, but there isn't a way to keep everything read only, as well as keeping links safe. This is our biggest hurdle with this update, and why it has been delayed for so long.

Our aim is to start working on this within the next handful of days.

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Wyrom, PM