A new update to SMF has been released, so the forums will need to be updated to it at some point. As always, due to the customizations and the use of addons (some of which have had to be installed manually and modified to be 2.1 compatible), it's not going to be as straightforward as just running the auto-update; but I'll look at sorting this update in the near future.
At this time I have no expected dates or other further details to share.
Hmm, just like that, SMF 2.1.6 was released yesterday, a few days after 2.1.5 was released. It's a minor hotfix for 2.1.5 according to the changelog.
Completely unrelated to this, but Firefox released two very quick versions too in the last few days, with the latest version released just today.
Well, guess we'll be upgrading to 2.1.6 then. :P
SMF is now upgraded to 2.1.6.
Please note, as a side effect of fixing a minor (but nonetheless, present) security issue I noticed during the upgrade, all account activation / reset password links in emails sent prior to the upgrade will now be invalid, and all users will have been signed out.
Please report any other issues you notice.
The issue recently with forum emails being delayed by a couple of hours was the fault of SMF 2.1.6. I've now applied a patch which should fix this issue.
Looks like version 2.1.7 dropped last month, so we'll need to upgrade the Forums to it sometime :)
https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=593921.0 (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=593921.0)
How many people are using the forum nowadays? It seems less active than before my break. Silken told me that almost everyone is on Discord now, but is everything taking place there? If there's anything I can do to support the forum, please let me know, I don't want it to be replaced...
No danger of that. While most chatting takes place on discord, the forum is essential for long-term storage of levels, styles and so on, as well as more important conversations like decisions on the physics of various engines -- anything that needs to be kept easily accessible in the long term.