News written by Petteri Pyyny (June, 2014)

As of today, we have finally retired our old warhorse -- a forum engine built and maintained by our own development team. We used our old, custom-built forum engine for 13 years and it has served us very well. But as the forum technologies have evolved, it simply became impossible for us to keep up with the modern 3rd party forum engines. After months of evaluation and testing, we have finally switched our forums to run on xenForo, a forum engine built by a group of former vBulletin employees.

Here's the quick summary of what is new:

• responsive layout (=page adapts nicely to mobile, tablet and desktop use)
• support for Facebook, Twitter and G+ logins
• improved private messages
• better editor
• etc..

Ketola has described the main changes in detail in his thread, so read more about changes from there.

As the switch was a pretty massive project, it is inevitable that some bugs are hiding somewhere. If you find anything weird, like 404s, etc, please, let us know!

Another year has passed and our dear site is now 15 years old. Yup, we launched the site in 1999, at the time when Google was still a small search startup and "social media" meant, for most people, watching TV with your friends.

I simply want to thank all of our staff members, moderators and users for keeping this site alive and kicking for all these years. These have been great years and I expect many more great years to follow.

Thank you.

-Petteri Pyyny, CEO
AfterDawn Oy