This has already been officially commented on. The forum software is in desperate need of an update and they are working on it but the snag is finding a way to migrate to a new forum without losing all the data and archives.
They could fix it tomorrow but then you would need to register for the new forum and all the various threads would be gone.
Migrating a relational database schema to some other schema should not be a big problem. One or two days work for someone who knows how it is done?
Everybody in the office working on fixing shield bash would sound like a better excuse.
