Today we were finally able to get most of the forums back from the dead.  2 weeks ago we didn't think we would be able to bring them up.  And to be honest, we probably will never get everything back.  

Fun fact: These are (one of) the oldest continuously running forums on the Internet.  When we wrote the forums, back in the late 1990s, we had to do everything from scratch.  We built these to replace Usenet.

So a few things:

If you're forum account is "new" (as in the past few years) there's a good chance you'll need to create a new account.  We didn't lose the posts and we didn't lose the user accounts but we did lose some of the blue that pointed a post to the user account.   So if you are having trouble and you're not an old timer, you'll probably need to create a new account. 

We apologize for the inconvenience.