If by that you mean to say “why do we need a new forum?”, I think that speaks directly to Nielsio’s point. You have the 5th highest post count out of more than 40k users. Daniel is 4th. Nielsio is in the top 25, I’m in the top 30. (And I haven’t seen at least half the top 30 post much, if at all, in the last 6 months or more). I think this shows quite well that no one really asked for this “upgrade”. And if it is a necessary switch, because we can no longer use this platform for some reason, or to help make the community section more compatible with the new CloudFlare, that’s understandable…but one would think the values of the actually community should be taken into account…and those in charge of the move should be quite sensitive to the demands of that user base, and effort should be made to appeal to them for suggestions on improvements and what should stay the same.
I agree with Niels that the whole thing feels like a strict top-down approach, without any concern for the people who actually use the community section. To me it feels like there’s this mood of: “Oh this would be cool. Let’s do this. Oh that’s neat…let’s do that too. Also I want this and this.” And all these changes are made without so much as an announcement, let alone crowd-sourced opinions and suggestions from actual users. It makes me wonder if appealing to users is even really the goal any more. More and more it seems that achieving some vision of what the community section should look like is more important than the actual community.