I don't know anything specific, but there was talk of switching to a new forum that would be able to carry the load. Maybe they're getting that set up now because they don't think the old forum will ever be able to handle the traffic. The plan is to bring back the original forum read/only to preserve the knowledge base.
Personally I think most of the raspberrypi.org traffic is existing users seeing if the forum is back up and if it were to come back the traffic would go away. At least I only check a few times a day. There may be well-intentioned enthusiasts with automatic scripts that are making the traffic look a lot worse than it really would be.
I don't know anything specific, but there was talk of switching to a new forum that would be able to carry the load. Maybe they're getting that set up now because they don't think the old forum will ever be able to handle the traffic. The plan is to bring back the original forum read/only to preserve the knowledge base.
Personally I think most of the raspberrypi.org traffic is existing users seeing if the forum is back up and if it were to come back the traffic would go away. At least I only check a few times a day. There may be well-intentioned enthusiasts with automatic scripts that are making the traffic look a lot worse than it really would be.
