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I am writing this post to make an announcement which is going to hurt me a lot and many of our users also will be shocked by this anouncement :-( From the topic of the post you must have come to know what this is all about. Just to make it formal, we have removed the forum from our site. The main reason being the spams. It was our mistake not to have security mechanism in place like captcha verifications and the forum we chose for this purpose was not highly secure. Since we provide all information for free and our intention was never to make money from this site, we can't afford to pay for quality forum software like vBulletin. The number of users crossed 500 within a span of 4 months but we realized that almost 70% of the users (~350 users) were spam accounts and were created through automated bots. We sincearly apologize to our 150 genuine users who were actively participating in the forums. We know there are some very good open source forums available like phpBB, fireboard, SMF etc. Initially we though for phpBB but there are some integration issues with Joomla so dropped the idea. We are planning to re-create the forum in near future and we'll take all security measures this time. Most probably, we'll be using Fireboard but we are waiting for few new features to be added to FB and once it's done we'll plan to integrate the forum back in our site. In fact, we are not just planning for forum but for a full featured community site with features like forums, user blog, groups etc. It may take some time to make this reality but we promise that it'll be done very soon next year sometime. And we hope that you'll keep supporting our site like always. Cheers ...
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