There's a lot to be said for Nightscrawler's current platform (XMB), but its development has been somewhat stagnant of late, and we're no longer getting exciting, cutting-edge features. Our new platform (phpBB) is the most actively developedforum platform on the Internet. For an idea of some of the features it has to offer, please see here.
We obviously want to make this transition as easy as possible; we've spent literally months testing the data conversion necessary and making sure everything down to the last avatar, post icon, and smiley is transferred to the new forum. We've designed a theme for the new forum that's as familiar as possible yet accommodates all of its functionality.
And now we'd like you to take a look! The preview is available here! It is fully functional, but please be aware that any changes and posts you make will not be transferred over to this forum and they may be overwritten at any time. Please feel free to post any comments, questions, or concerns here; we invite nitpicking. We want the new platform to be as great an experience going forward as possible.
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Happy New Year!
-HoodedMan
on behalf of the Nightscrawlers staff and administration