Recently I posted about how I was having trouble keeping up with the discussion forum. Unfortunately I was becoming more and more overwhelmed with supporting users. It was hurting development (because I never had time) and I was starting to resent TubePress for clogging my inbox.

I decided that what TubePress needed was a discussion forum with more features and more ability to be controlled. I’m not the only one that wasn’t happy with Google Groups. Their spam control is terrible, and I know that many users found actually searching the forums to be difficult.

Here’s the punchline: TubePress’s discussion forum is now located at http://community.tubepress.org and powered by the (fully featured) phpBB software. As you can see, it’s broken into two main sections: public and TubePress Pro. Anyone can post in the public area (though some forums there require free user registration). The TubePress Pro forums will be monitored by me, your developer, and I’ll focus my support there.

If you’re already a TubePress Pro user, you can get instructions for logging in here. Please contact me if you need assistance.

Don’t forget that anyone can register on tubepress.org and gain access to the free forums! I hope you’ll find the new forum more useful than the old. Thanks for using TubePress!