The Wailing Wall

"We will be making the url to the archived forums available as soon as it is available."

I'm trying to get interested in the *new* blogorums which popped up out of the carcase of the forum, and I hope a lot of changes will occur that make that software useable. Right now it's a lot like Assyrian architecture (you never know where you are), but maybe it can be beaten into a useable format.

I don't understand why it was necessary to - not reinvent the wheel, but take a non-wheel and put it in place of a wheel. Is there something for the user that makes it better than actual forum software? Right now the only reason anyone can think of for it being used is a desire on the part of LL to limit and control interactions from customer to LL and customer to customer.

Update: Every once in a while I go to the Jive site looking for their forum so I can find out more about them, but I've decided they don't have one.