Today at or around 1 p.m. EST, we will be doing our first mass emailing to all of our forum users. This is being done to notify you about an important change that we are making to the forums and to our parent Web site, Taunton.com.

Over the past few years, our forums and parent Web site have seen a very large increase in usage. As a result of this, we have outgrown the existing registration system. In the upcoming weeks we will be implementing a new registration system, a single “seamless” registration system.

We will no longer have separate registration systems for our forums and our Web site. So if you are shopping and want to visit the forums, you won’t have to log in at Taunton.com, then log in again to enter the forums. A single registration will cover both sites.

This also means that all users will need to re-register. Re-registration Does Not mean that users will lose their forums history (number of posts, messages read unread, signatures forum profiles) these items are all being preserved and we will be linking your new registration to your old account. How are we doing this? We will be using your email address to link the two accounts, so that means that you need to know what your current forum email address is.

In the Sandbox, you will find a folder called New Registration FAQs to address any questions you might have regarding this process. Here is a link to this new folder:

http://forums.taunton.com/tp-thesandbox/messages/?topfolder=09

If you have questions regarding this process, please post them in the New Registration FAQs folder in the Sandbox.