I have just shipped the new FreeBSD Forums box. It will be much nicer to have a more powerful box and lots more RAM to play with. Maybe even let us implement things like Varnish finally!

Sometime around these days, FreeBSD Forums will celebrate (possibly quietly) two years of its existence! According to its stats, it now has over 10,000 members and over 61,000 posts!

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As I have mentioned a few times, I was working together with a few other FreeBSD developers on an official FreeBSD web based forums. This initiative has started a pretty long time ago and took us almost a year (if not more) to finish it. There were times we felt like the work has been stalled, however we haven’t resigned.

Finally, we have annouced today the public launch of the official FreeBSD forums, that can be found at http://forums.freebsd.org. We are pleased to welcome you there.

The key members in this project are brd@, who kindly donated the vBulletin licence and is providing hosting services, joel@ who took the responsibility for creating the structure of the forum and writing its rules together with lme@ and miwi@ who have also participated in these efforts and who were given moderator privileges. These people deserve a lot of credits for their work. I have been working on the overall design and I hope you will like it

If you have any ideas for improvements and/or you would like to submit some criticique, you are welcome to reach us at the Feedback forum.