no https

[Andijvie]

Why is this forum insecure? All user names and passwords can theoretically be eavesdropped?

Why this choice to host an insecure website/forum?

edit: I realized posing only questions might sound a bit aggressive. Apologies. Did not mean it that way. Kind regards.

[IanWatson]

Because the forum is already broken, and last time I tried activating https, it broke site functionality enough that the forums were unusable.

[tasti man LH]

Is it currently not in the budget to switch to a different forum host?

[Dwight]

Is it currently not in the budget to switch to a different forum host?

They gotta kickstart that probably

[IanWatson]

Is it currently not in the budget to switch to a different forum host?

We're virtually the only RPG company that still has forums. If we shut these down, it's more likely we'd direct people to an alternative like Discord than to replace them with different forum software.

[tasti man LH]

We're virtually the only RPG company that still has forums. If we shut these down, it's more likely we'd direct people to an alternative like Discord than to replace them with different forum software.

Like the currently existing official OPP Discord server?

[Andijvie]

We're virtually the only RPG company that still has forums.

That makes more apreciative of the effort you are investing in it. Thanks for clarifying

[Erinys]

Steve Jackson Games has forums with a thriving community. It's definitely not a waste to have forum communities, especially considering that some people (like me) absolutely do not want to use Facebook. And I don't even know what Discord is, let alone how to use it. A forum is a good way to maintain a community.

[Heavy Arms]

If Onyx Path thought forums were a waste, they'd have shut this one down already. They just don't think the forums add enough value to justify the cost and work to fix all the problems this software has. There's a lot of reasons I prefer forums for discussing stuff, but most of the time there are as many active users here as there are on the official Onyx Path Discord server (which is a lot easier on Onyx Path in terms of running that then maintaining this), so forums are a way to maintain a community, but it's harder to argue that it's the best way for Onyx Path to maintain their community than you might think.

If you want to start a thread on different options - probably best in a broader sense than trying to convince Ian to change his mind about this - it's probably best to jump over to the Off Topic forum than keep at it here.