Looking forward to the update, not that I feel it's needed, but new and different is always exciting!
I'm hoping for very little excitement.
Yes, we did testing. Everything seems to be working well on the test forum.
The "new" forum will look and operate almost exactly the same as now. Searches will be a
LOT faster. This (plus some other database changes) should speed things up for everyone, even if you aren't using search. The new software ought to be more hacker-resistant as well.
There will be a new theme (look and layout) available for smartphone users. (This is in lieu of Tapatalk, which just isn't going to work for us here.)
On the negative side, chat and the Google Member Map will go away, because of lack of support from the software authors.
But basically it's going to be just about like it is now, so nobody should be terrorized by a need to learn new stuff.
send coffee.... to mr bill.... he'll need it.. he has to type in all the messages by hand if things go wrong 
