I agree that the forums seem worse than ever at the moment. Though I’m away from home right now with patchy internet connectivity and that’s probably making it even worse (and is why I’m not around as much as usual).

The latest update I got from Larian’s community management team is that the main problem seems to be with UBB Threads and not something Larian can directly influence, so it’s interesting to see that backed up by Beechams’ research. The bad news about that is there’s no quick fix, and what’s really needed is replatforming the forums. And that isn’t going to happen before release.

And as Alodar says, that’s going to be really frustrating both for new users and all of us when we want to talk about our first experiences playing the game.

Unfortunately all we can really do is cross our fingers. Though I’ll ask if there’s any discussion with UBB Threads about the shoddy service.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"