New ChiefTalk Forum

[Dan Park]

I totally understand what everyone is saying here.

First, I will say this again, one year is a date that is not set in stone. If we feel there is a lot of value at the end of one year we can consider an extension.

The goal here is to provide a single sign on experience. That was not possible with Vbulletin.

There are some serious security reasons as well. You may notice the new site is 100% https.

Vbulletin has never been able to effectively prevent spammers and hackers.

The new forum should effectively put up a huge road block to that problem. Since we now write and maintain the signup code, we can assure your data is much more secure than software where the source code is public.

I am not happy that we had to make this transition either. It's not something we take lightly. However, it has to be done.

We need to identify the best items on this site and make them available on the new forum or in another format, such as help articles.

None of us want to loose the content available on this site. So long as it continues to provide good value to our users we will continue to provide access.