Sometime on Monday afternoon (PDT) our forums will be upgraded to an improved platform. During that time there will be momentary downtime and sometimes brief slowness as the process completes. You should not notice any significant disruption.

However, all the messages on the forum will be re-indexed to take advantage of a new search engine. As the index rebuilds, the search tool will be unavailable or will return only partial results as each forum is added to the index.

Besides the improved search engine, two of the other improvements include an improved user interface when adding your own avatars and digests will now include the appropriate number of posts.