Hopefully you have seen forum posts about the up-coming forum migration or have heard about it through other channels. The date for the migration is finally set. If everything goes smoothly, one week from now we'll be up-and-running on the new platform.
The forums will be unavailable next week starting Monday, January 21, at around 08:00 GMT. We hope to have everything back up by Tuesday, January 22, at around 12:00 GMT.
During this down time, all forum posts and user accounts will be moved to the new system.
When the forums come back up you should be able to log in using your normal forums username and password. The worst case is that you'll have to reset your password.
The new forums feature a single system for all local language forums which means if you have an account in more than one local language forum, those accounts will be merged if they are the same username and email address. If you have multiple accounts with different email addresses, change the email addresses to match one another before Monday to avoid problems with your account migration.
Thanks to everyone who was able to take a look at the beta site and provide feedback. Undoubtedly, we'll have issues we'll need to address soon after go-live, but all of the critical and blocker items have been addressed at this point.
Just a note that the English forums are now in lockdown, no posts and replies can be made and any other changes made to the site (eg profile changes) will not be migrated.
Look forward to seeing you all on the new forums soon.
We're using a new spam filter. If it detects a post it thinks may be spam, it will ask you to complete captchas until it is convinced otherwise. So this should clear up after a few posts. If not, let us know and we can see if we can fix it for your account.
If you edit a post, hit save (there is no captcha on edit), but it brings you back to the same page and asks to enter captcha - plus there is no captcha image to enter? If you go to 'view', then 'edit', it seems only way to save an edited post.
