You might have noticed that these new forums are undergoing some renovation works after being left as is for quite some time. This was mainly due to trials with other forum software (Discourse, Lemmy, NodeBB etc.), but in the end I decided to stay with Flarum.

Also see the related discussion on: Splitting the freegamedev forums in two was a mistake

There are currently a few ongoing & planned works:

Add related discussions and keyboard short-cut extensions (press "h")
Add invite-code registrations to combat spam (needs more testing)
Move forum to F-hub.org server (likely in the coming days)
Real-time updates and performance improvements of the forum
Integrate chat and forum with F-hub.org community terms and policy
Move primary domain for IRC network to irc.f-hub.org
IRC account integration with F-hub.org code forge (in addition to Nickserv)
New Matrix and XMPP gateways on F-hub.org domain (docu here)
Moved IRC web-client to IRC network portal page
IRC Chat widget on forum (still needs proper plugin)
Maintenance / migration IRC server and Discord bridges
Better IRC Bot (replace Limnoria with Bitbot)
Different primary tag structure (under discussion, needs suggestions)
PWA and Webpush support
Login with F-hub.org Oauth2 Forgejo support

Under investigation:

Different RSS feed extension for forum (better performance)
Integration with FGD Planet (automatically posts and comments on forum)
Web-ring for open-source game projects?
User donations integration (OpenCollective, Patreon, LiberaPay)?
Vanity bridge addresses under freegamedev.net domain.

Delayed or cancled

Mumble server with Matterbridge and Bitbot integration (WIP)
Mumble-web in-browser client (broken until I change my router setup)

Together with this changes I plan to start locking the old forums more and more. All the non-active project forums have been already locked and are an archive only.

The new "News" tag is primarily meant for FGD Planet posts and administrative announcements. It also replaces the blog comments forum from the old Forums, although the FreeGamer blog continues to be not active.