# What happened with the forum? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [March 30, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873 "2017-03-30T13:12:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MoisesZV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@MoisesZV](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MoisesZV)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/1 "2017-03-30T13:12:01Z")
This is all I can see ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/a/a7ee50778c1b9bfa9f552c9e84730eab85d849b9.png) ---
**Author:** ![abishur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/abishur/32/9096_2.png) [@abishur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abishur)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/2 "2017-03-30T13:37:47Z")
Me too, I guess they decided to simplify? ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/3 "2017-03-30T13:41:07Z")
This is in preparation for moving to a new software platform for the forum. Something that will look like it’s from this century. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/4 "2017-03-30T13:53:16Z")
It lost its memory of what we’ve already looked at. Just click the “Mark forums read” link to reset it all, then find your place on the “active topics” link manually. It’ll keep up from there. ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/5 "2017-03-30T13:55:42Z")
Yeah, that part kind of sucked. And I wouldn’t be surprised if it has another lobotomy when we switch to the new software. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@Pat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Pat)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 8:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/6 "2017-03-30T20:56:43Z")
[quote=“KathyApplebaum”]Something that will look like it’s from this century. 😃[/quote]I actually like the forum (as it was), I don’t like the look of most ‘modern’ forums. Oh my gosh, I just realized I sound like an operator that uses a system that I switched to High Performance HMI, ‘I don’t like the new look, I like the old one with colors in it’. I must be getting old 😐 ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/7 "2017-03-30T21:10:28Z")
The new forum software will probably be pretty polarizing. Unfortunately… you all have no say in the matter 😆😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/8 "2017-03-31T12:27:18Z")
I have a number of threads bookmarked. Should I plan on losing those bookmarks? Also do you know when the switch over will be? ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/9 "2017-03-31T13:51:10Z")
[quote=“Caleb Bohon”]I have a number of threads bookmarked. Should I plan on losing those bookmarks? Also do you know when the switch over will be?[/quote] Next week possibly. We’re importing all the posts and users but I doubt your bookmarks will still work, especially if you’re talking about a browser bookmark as opposed to some functionality of this forum that lets you save posts (no idea if that’s actually a thing). On the plus side… the search function on the new forum shouldn’t be completely useless. ---
**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/10 "2017-03-31T14:21:30Z")
Ok. My bookmarks are inside the forum. (When inside a topic you can click on a link to bookmark to the forum rather than to the browser.) Will both systems be up simultaneously for a short period so we can move that sort of thing ourselves if needed? ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/11 "2017-03-31T14:22:05Z")
[quote=“Kevin.Herron”]as opposed to some functionality of this forum that lets you save posts (no idea if that’s actually a thing).[/quote]It is a thing. Quite handy too. I do hope y’all are making an effort to port those, too. ---
**Author:** ![abishur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/abishur/32/9096_2.png) [@abishur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abishur)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/12 "2017-03-31T14:27:32Z")
Having gone through forum upgrades in the past on other sites, I would make a note of the Subject of any thread you have book-marked so you can find it later in the event that all the links are broken and the bookmarks are lost. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Caleb\_Bohon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/caleb_bohon/32/3293_2.png) [@Caleb\_Bohon](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Caleb_Bohon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/13 "2017-03-31T14:46:58Z")
Abishur, Thats a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![Michael.Stofan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/michael.stofan/32/3342_2.png) [@Michael.Stofan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Michael.Stofan)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-happened-with-the-forum/12873/14 "2017-03-31T15:03:45Z")
Bookmarks, attachments and private messages should all survive the migration to the new forum software. We’re targeting as soon as next week for the migration as long as our testing goes well, that’s still a bit flexible. We’ll be putting a sticky up a day or two before the migration to make sure everyone has a heads up. During the migration, the forum will be down for the duration. We want to avoid having any incoming posts getting lost.