I want to apologize for having the forum down for such an extended period of time (about 2 weeks). There was a technical issue we were unaware of until the amazing Robert Bernardo brought it to our attention.
As you can see the forum is up and running, and we also upgraded it. There are hundreds of improvements but all of them are in the back end with nothing much for you to see other than it is faster (more responsive) and "The new Gravatar URL format for avatars has been implemented, ensuring compatibility with the latest Gravatar standards", which few will care about.
Thank you for your patience and again, I would like to apologize for that outage
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