In mid-October, 2011, the GWVRP moved to a new hosting platform. As part of this move, the application server technology behind the site changed from Cold Fusion to Railo, an open source alternative to the costly Cold Fusion product that the site is written in. With this change, the commercial Fusetalk software used to power the Forums was found to be inoperable due to how Fusetalk source code is encrypted. To continue using Fusetalk would have cost upwards of $1500, so the difficult decision was made to find an alternative to Fusetalk. Unfortunately, no suitable solution that would allow migration of users and messaging data from Fusetalk was found.
The new forums software selected is called YetAnotherForum.NET and is written as an open source application in ASP.NET. It will be necessary to create a new user account in forum.gulfweb.org for you to participate in the Forums.
Sincerely,
Grant Szabo
Editor/Founder
www.gulfweb.org