CCP Sreegs has done an outstanding job both addressing the issues as they occurred and messaging to you folks the current state of affairs and what we are doing about it – I think we web guys owe him a case or two at least. He is best placed to continue answering such questions so I will endeavor not to muddy his waters but I did want to take the opportunity to address some of your questions about how the new forums came to be – i.e. why did we choose YAF, what changes did we make and why.
To set the stage a bit, here's a bit of background to eve isk Gate's development. When we first drafted up the initial development approach for what was then called "Cosmos," we looked at a number of possible approaches and ended up looking in earnest at Community Server (buy eve isk) to form the backbone we would develop upon. They had a robust forum solution with a lot of integrated features we could build upon. They utilized the same development environment that our web team used (.Net) and had some proven success in large scale implementations.
