If you’ve been to our forum this week, you might have noticed that it’s running a new software. And you might ask yourself if forums are still a thing these days, with so many social networks around. At least we asked that question quite a few times. Here are our results, and how we came to ask this question in the first place.
Our forum is dedicated to privacy and security, and people come to us asking for help on these topics. While there are many social media networks that could be used to interact with Team Spybot, our forums have the advantage of not sharing your issues with anyone connected to you, and with your data being saved with stricter rules than those social networks have (we do not share, except what any visitor can see of course, with third parties, have a privacy contract with our server host, &c).
This week also featured the Safer Internet Day, and our old forum software didn’t support passkeys. Since we advocate 2FA and/or passkeys wherever possible, we didn’t want to come off as the ones who didn’t follow their own advice. So, if you already have a forum account, please set up a passkey, or at least another type of 2FA!
And why we thought so much about the forum touches yet another topic – releasing in shorter intervals and posting more progress to be more transparent led us to the one and only place we have to do that perfectly, and that is here. The fresh air the new forum software brought will help us post here and everywhere.