For new members and older ones just coming back, I wanted to point out that the forums here are "closed" to non-members (which includes search engines).
Basically what that means is that if you are not logged in, or not a member, you can see the forums, and the thread titles but you cannot see ANY of the text posted on each thread.

I made that change 6 months or so ago because it started becoming obvious to me that having conversations in a public forum wasnt in our best interests. I know some other sites have most of their content in the public side and a few subforums behind closed doors. I never liked that because that means you have to go in an unrelated section to have candid conversations about any particular subject.

This has all but destroyed any chance of new members finding their way here via search engines, but I'm ok with that. The benefit of having a safe place to type far outweighs that in my mind.

In any case... figured a reminder was in order. :-)
Good to see some old, familiar faces.

Alex