A major change has occured at the Haiku Forums today, with the majority of forums having been combined in to general support and development forums, and the creation of a large number of language-specific forums for non-English posts. No posted content has been lost, however.

The reasonings behind this, as well as news on the new Haiku site, are explained by Waldermar Kornewald as being a precursor to the separation of the "official" and "community" parts of the website in to two entities. This is not uncommon for an opensource project (indeed Mozilla has Community, Developer and Business sites, all separated). The new official site will feature FAQs, RfCs, the project blogs, and official news but not community content.

A preview of the new site is available at plonetest.haiku-os.org. Despite the name, it is in fact running Drupal (as stated in the web design contest), not Plone.

Should BeOS users be looking for a discussion forum to use now that the Haiku forums are gearing up more for Haiku-only activities, BeGroovy, the venerable forums even mentioned in the BeOS Bible, are still running.