Many of you have recently reported issues with password changes, mobile access, and profile updates. There is (theoretically) a big update to our forum software releasing within the next couple of days. Because this is a significant upgrade and nothing in IT is easy, it will probably break as soon as I install it. Here's what it means to you:

1. The forums may be offline later this week for as long as three or four days. I will give 24-hour advance notice via this thread, the home page, and Twitter.

2. It's possible that I'll need to revert to the default forum appearance ("skin") for a while. Depends on how much they've changed the style sheets.

3. You'll probably encounter new and exciting bugs. I'll pin a bug report thread post-launch and get things fixed as quickly as I can.

Hooray, technology.