Spoke last night with someone on their web team (for that group actually exists) and was told: "The forum is some custom thing Jim liked, a million years ago. He got that same guy in to build him a forum. I am really not a fan of his code. It's the kind of code that looks like it's a bomb made entirely out of tripwires. And the server admin was supposed to secure the site with SSL months ago, and I'm still waiting for that."
When I asked if there was any chance of an upgrade, I got: "There are so many different good solutions for forums these days. So many! But no, the site is sticking with the one it has. [...] the brief I got was that the site needs to retain its basic look and structure. The idea is still that of the site being a building of many different rooms to explore."
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