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Forum Beta Testing: Finished!
I don't know about you, but I hate the World of Warcraft forums. Popular threads eventually break, meaning you can no longer browse through them (though people can keep posting to them), lending to the potential loss of much useful information (or much useless spam - but it's hard to tell!). Needed information is impossible to find due to a very poorly implemented search feature (perhaps it worked once upon a time, before the forums got so big). And I could go on! But at any rate, this is why I'm glad to see the new forums that Blizzard has been beta testing. And the beta testing period is now closed, meaning the forums should be released for general use soon. To that I can only say... yay!
Beta Forums Stress Test
Remember the new forum system Blizzard's been testing? Well, tomorrow they're going to be running a stress test of the new forums - by making the existing forums read-only for the duration of the test. So tomorrow afternoon, all of the action you'd usually see at forums.worldofwarcraft.com will be relocated to beta.worldofwarcraft.com. So let's see if the new forums system is any better than the old - be sure to run over and post, reply, or just spend some time reading the beta forums.
New Forums Up, Old Forums Down
While the shiny new beta forums are up and running, the old forums - with all their sticky posts and archived information - are offline. Drysc claims they're offline due to an unrelated issue and should be coming back, though the continued downtime is the longest in recent memory (starting late Thursday night). In the mean-time, conspiracy theorists speculate that the old forums have been pulled down to force players to test the new forums. However, while we're waiting for the old forums to rise from the dead, the beta forums do provide a source of entertainment, and in some cases information, as the same questions get asked and answered.
